No Last Words

<p><em>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. </em></p><p><br></p><p>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. </p><p><br></p><p>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.  </p>