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Thank you so much for taking the time to visit this site to learn about our amazing mum, Karina Stell, and her powerfully moving memoir, Life Interrupted.

Karina passed away from Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2018. This website is managed by her three daughters, Elisabeth, Philippa & Kate, to raise awareness of her story as well as to share news and information about the incredible charities that sales of her book will support.

The Road to Life Interrupted

Karina Stell was a sixty-year-old writer, therapist, mother and doting grandmother. Karina was diagnosed with and fought three separate cancers, including Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma from 2009, before passing away in September, 2018, a few weeks after completing her memoir, Life Interrupted.

About Life Interrupted - A Memoir by Karina Stell (1958 - 2018)
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'Everything can be taken but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.'

- Victor Frankl

Charlie’s Leukaemia & Lymphoma Fund

The Charlie's Leukaemia & Lymphoma Fund was created in January 1998 to raise money for research into Lymphoma, Leukaemia and Myeloma.

Snowdome Foundation (Blood Cancer Research WA)

At Blood Cancer Research Western Australia, critical work is being done for patients with Leukaemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma to give them access to new and potentially life-saving treatments.

Donate Now

Please join us in the fight against Blood Cancer by making a donation to these incredible charities today. Help the fight against Blood Cancer in Australia.