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Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life a handsome, intelligent, loving husband who was a professor two glorious toddlers a beautiful house in their Midwestern college town the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, the life Isabel had made crumbled. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two young sons. Happens every day, said a friend. Far from a self-pitying diatribe, Happens Every Day reads like an intimate conversation between friends. It is a dizzyingly can-did, compulsively readable, ultimately redemptive story about love, marriage, family, heartbreak, and the unexpected turns of a life. On the one hand, reading this book is like watching a train wreck. On the other hand, as Gillies herself says, it is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away.
About the Author
Isabel Gillies, is the New York Times best selling author of Happens Every Day, A Year And Six Seconds and Starry night. Her work has been published in Vogue, The New York Times, Real Simple, Cosmopolitan. GOOP and Saveur. Isabel, also known for her television role as Detective Stabler's wife on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and for her cinematic debut in the film Metropolitan, graduated from New York University with a BFA in film. A life long New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan with her husband, kiddos, and Maude & Duke the dogs.
