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.
A story readers will savor and remember..
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).
When this couple seems to have reached an impasse, separation brings renewed love, and then tragedy brings new challenges.
But beneath the glittering exterior was the struggle of money, alcohol, and ultimately self-control and hard-won sobriety.
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.
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.
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
