A Year and Six Seconds by Isabel Gillies

A Year and Six Seconds

A Love Story

Isabel Gillies

Grand Central Publishing · Print & ebook · August 2, 2011

A real-life romantic comedy about getting dumped and getting over it Isabel Gillies, the New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day, has written another irresistibly moving and funny memoir: A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story.

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Who it’s for
An intimate, lightly sharp love story that reads easily and gives people something to talk about.
Genres
Personal Memoirs, Divorce & Separation, Love & Romance
Published
Grand Central Publishing, August 2, 2011

About this book

A real-life romantic comedy about getting dumped and getting over it Isabel Gillies, the New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day, has written another irresistibly moving and funny memoir: A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story. When our story opens, it's a dark and slushy winter in New York City, where Isabel is arriving by airplane from Ohio, two toddlers in tow, to move in with her parents; her husband has left her for another woman.

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In subsequent scene after hilarious scene, Isabel shares her valiant, misguided, and bumbling attempts to understand her own part in the disintegration of her marriage and to feel strong and loveable. And, one by one, she begins to cross items off a staggering single mom to-do list that includes: change last name, get bank account, get work, have breakdowns only in front of best friend and not in front of children, find rare preschool slot for son midyear in Manhattan, get along with three generations of family in tight quarters, find a man who can plant one great and romantic kiss, accept self, accept love, be happy. She cries, she dates, she (and her mother and father and children) get the flu, and then, just when she least expects it, Isabel falls in love. With humility and a refreshing sense of humor, Isabel stumbles many times but also laughs, forgives, discovers new treasures from old friends, marries again, and more than that, finds good love itself within and around her.

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An intimate, lightly sharp love story that reads easily and gives people something to talk about.

Come here for

  • later-life romance with a book-club angle
  • accessible, playful edge

Expect

  • marriage-and-divorce tensions
  • a sustained, performance-friendly narrative

Where it sits

Personal Memoirs81%
Divorce & Separation78%
Love & Romance55%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Personal Memoirs
  • Divorce & Separation
  • Love & Romance
Authors
Isabel Gillies
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Published
August 2, 2011
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Personal Memoirs