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Sea Sick

The Adventures of a Ship’s Doctor

Ruth Taylor

KEY SELLING POINTS
A doctor recounts her unpredicted experiences working in the quasi-naval setting of a cruise-ship.
Readers get a glimpse of a world within a world rarely seen.
The dramatic and humorous memoir is written against a background of the author’s family story as Ten
Pound Poms and their sea voyages.

Is there a doctor who wouldn’t want to work on a cruise ship sailing to Rio?

Ruth sets off on the voyage of a lifetime with her husband, Tom, yearning for a blissful break away from fifteen
years as a hectic GP in the East End of London.

Within days an epidemic of Norovirus takes over the ship. Strict sanitary measures are implemented.
Passengers are quarantined. The mood on board changes.

As the sole doctor Ruth works alongside two nurses one of whom is an alcoholic. Tensions in the Medical
Centre mount. Medical cases include life-threatening emergencies. A GP surgery it is not.
At the doctor’s table apparently colourless passengers reveal surprises as the trip unfolds. By day Ruth
struggles with the masculine hierarchy while evenings bring romantic escapism for Tom and Ruth.

Ruth’s unease grows as she realises that the ship retraces the Atlantic slave trade ports. Her family story as
Ten Pound Poms emigrating to Australia in 1949 and their subsequent four Atlantic crossings ignites her
lifelong attachment to the sea.

But will this be Ruth’s last voyage?

Ruth Taylor’s ocean voyages began aged two sailing to Australia with her family as a Ten Pound Pom. Sea
travel became her passion. As a twenty-one-year-old ship’s nurse she was determined to retrain as a doctor.
From her busy East London GP-practice she returned to working on ships during holidays accompanied by her
husband. Ruth and Tom live in Hackney, London.

Publication Date: Was Jan now April 2024 £10.99 ISBN: 9781805142263
Thema subject category: DNC – Memoirs
paperback 216 x 138 mm 296 pp Portrait Author location: London

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