This vivid memoir presents adventures from the life of Barbara A.Wilson, an internationally honoured scientist who played an influential role in the development of neuropsychological rehabilitation at a time when the scientific field was dominated by men.

Barbara A. Wilson has worked in brain injury rehabilitation for over 42 years. She founded the Oliver Zangwill Centre and the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. She has won many awards including an OBE for services to rehabilitation. She is a Fellow of The British Psychological Society, The Academy of Medical Sciences and The Academy of Social Sciences, and honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong, the University of Sydney and the University of East Anglia.

Chapter One: Further Childhood Memories

Chapter Two: Early Years of Marriage

Chapter Three: Women in Science

Chapter Four: My First Job as a Qualified Clinical Psychologist

Chapter Five: Work Trips to Australia, Japan, Brazil and India

Chapter Six: Jordan, my last trip with Sarah

Chapter Seven: Present Time: Brexit and the Coronavirus; and a look back to early marriage when we lived in Suffolk and Essex and neuropsychology was not even thought of

Chapter Eight: My first day at Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre

Chapter Nine: The disaster in the USA - 9/11 and memories of earlier times when we visited New York

Chapter Ten: Links with Chile

Chapter Eleven: Travels in Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Mali and Namibia

Chapter Twelve: More on work trips to Greece, Italy and Spain

Chapter Thirteen: Other work trips to Cuba, New Zealand, Argentina and South Africa

Chapter Fourteen: Learning from Patients

Chapter Fifteen: Brexit and Irish citizenship

Chapter Sixteen Coping with bereavement twenty years on

Chapter Seventeen: Life today, Lock down, walks round Bury St Edmunds; Black lives matter

Chapter Eighteen: Current work and interests

Chapter Nineteen: The Neuropsychological Consequences of Covid-19

Chapter Twenty: Final thoughts