Nula Suchet was born in Dublin and educated in Ireland and the UK.

With a background in the arts, she travelled extensively in her thirties — to Africa, where she taught art to the children of Soweto, and Australia where she worked with the Aborigines.

In 1990 she was the location artist for an A&E television series ‘Early Man’, narrated by Walter Cronkite. In between television assignments she worked as an interior designer in London, Paris and New York. Her clients included many well-known film and pop stars. Her work was published in many notable interior magazines and newspapers.

Her marriage to James Black, a television writer-director with the BBC, Granada, and A&E, whom she met on location in Africa, was the happiest time of her life. They had twenty blissful years together before he was diagnosed with Pick’s Disease, a form of dementia, in 2004. This dreadful disease led to a harrowingly slow decline and inevitable death in 2014.

In 2016 Nula decided to tell the story of how she lost the man she loved to dementia, and the heartbreak of more than a decade of living with it. But her story also chronicles how she was able to move on after James’s death and begin a new life. The book, The Longest Farewell, was published in 2019. Film rights have been bought, and production is due to begin in 2023.

It is a story of how despair was turned into happiness, a story to inspire any other person who finds themselves trapped in the quagmire of dementia.

She’s now ambassador for Alzheimer’s UK and on the Development Committee of Rare Dementia.