This is a biographical study of the early Modernist artist whose work was frequently criticised when she was alive and almost completely forgotten after her early death. It was only by sheer chance that her work was rediscovered thirty years later and now occupies a canonical place in Australian art.

Beckett is today recognised as an important innovator who explored philosophical, psychological and spiritual themes in her paintings and found a creative stimulus in ideas she gleaned from her metaphysical enquiries. Some of her work moved in the direction of abstraction; all of it has grown in popularity over the last fifty years. An important retrospective at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2021 cemented further the admiration of the public for her paintings.

Eryldene was kindly gifted 3 copies (soft cover) of the book for retail by Dr Ziegler.