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    A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story
    A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story
    A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story
    Audiobook6 hours

    A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story

    Written by Isabel Gillies

    Narrated by Karen White

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A Year and Six Seconds opens on the winter day Isabel Gillies arrives in Manhattan, two young sons in tow, after her husband has left her; she's moving back in with her parents until she can figure out what to do next.

    In scene after sweet, hilarious scene, Gillies exposes her attempts to feel strong and lovable and to cross items off a staggering to-do list that includes: break down only in front of best friend, not in front of children; get along with parents in tight quarters; find preschool spot for son mid-school-year in Manhattan; receive one great, romantic kiss. She makes lists, she dates, she cries; she and her whole crowded family get the flu; then, just when Gillies least expects it, she falls in love.

    A Year and Six Seconds is a buoyant, true romantic comedy with a universal human undercurrent reminding us that we can all struggle and stumble, but somehow come out just fine on the other side.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 1, 2011
    ISBN9781452672946
    A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story
    Author

    Isabel Gillies

    Isabel Gillies is a New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day, A Year And Six Seconds, and Starry Night. Her writing as been published in Vogue, the New York Times, Real Simple, Cosmopolitan, GOOP, and Saveur. A life long New Yorker and actress for many years, she lives in Manhattan with her husband, three kids and two dogs.

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    • 4/5
      The second memoir from Gillies, this time about regrouping after her failed marriage, and falling in love again. Oh, how I wish I had Gillies' sense of life! She arrives with her two toddler sons at her parents' apartment in New York, after her husband leaves her for another woman. She learns to pick up the pieces and go on. She outlines how moving in with her parents affected them all (they are saints!), and how she met Peter, another divorced parent, on the playground with their collective kids. I didn't like the last chapter - too preachy - but the rest was very good. I just had to go to wikipedia to really see who the ex was, and see more about the new hubby.
    • 2/5
      Eh... Her first book is much better. This is a fine, light read. It's like having drinks with a girlfriend, albeit one going through a breakup. Fine, but nothing to write home about.
    • 4/5
      A Year and Six Seconds By Isabel Gillies A memoir written by author/actress/mother/daughter/friend Isabel Gillies. Ms. Gillies is everywoman. She is honest, funny, witty, clever, resourceful and smart. She shares her story as a continuation from her excellent first memoir Happens Everyday, which detailed her idyllic life in Ohio and her heartbreaking and all too commonplace divorce from her husband a short time later. Every woman can find some aspect of this story to relate to, whether its divorce or simply having a similar relationship with your own mother. Its a quick, smile to yourself, a tear in your eye, one night read. Enjoy. Learn Something. And note to self: Read Happens Everyday first.
    • 5/5
      RATING:5 out 5In this follow-up memoir to “It Happens Every Day”, Isabel Gillies, bares her heart and all the raw emotions that came in the aftermath of her separation from her husband who has fallen in love with someone else. She leaves her home, most of her possessions, most of the possessions of her children, and the Midwestern town she has called home.She is honest with her hurt and pain as she heads back to her parents’ apartment in New York with her two very small little boys. My first thoughts when I began this book was why would she move back in with her parents but once the scene unfolds, you realize that it was the best move she could have made for all of them in terms of a safe, warm, loving cocoon that helped both her and the boys heal. Her frankness about the obstacles, uncertainty, and the depression that comes to her in waves almost every day, is a wonderful gift to other women who may be going through this kind of separation and loss of a relationship and will help them see that they are the only out there with the same or similar problems. This is wonderful personal story that takes you through all the different stages of the failing of a relationship. You wonder at times if Isabel will come out on the other in tack or will she withdraw with the help of her aging parents. Her story is one that can be recommended to a friend who might be going through a separation or divorce, to someone you know who is finding it difficult to move on just yet, or simply anyone who want to see that there is light on the other side of any bad situation.