The day before Robert died was an otherwise perfect June day in Connecticut: warm but not hot, with a bit of a breeze, flawless blue sky, puffy white clouds-the sort of weather a sailor loves, and Robert was a sailor.
So begins Tara Kelly’s moving memoir of her life with Robert Willis, her husband, father of their children, restauranteur, sailor, bon vivant, and alcoholic. From an enchanted start in Manhattan to a townhouse in Brooklyn, from an island in Maine and back to rural Connecticut, in fast cars, sleek boats, and on horseback, Tara and Robert seemed to live a charmed life. But beneath the glittering exterior was the struggle of money, alcohol, and ultimately self-control and hard-won sobriety. When this couple seems to have reached an impasse, separation brings renewed love, and then tragedy brings new challenges.
Tara Kelly’s memoir is a clear-eyed excavation of the lives lived together and apart by two charismatic modern Americans, a story told in love and compassion for herself and others, a story “…never unsympathetic, and refreshingly free from sentimentality and the temptation to settle old scores” (Michael Korda). A story readers will savor and remember.
Author: Tara Kelly
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Eastover Press LLC
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781958094365
Language: English
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