Reckless Years by Heather Chaplin - ISBN: 9781501135002
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Divorce, freedom, mistakes: A woman reinvents herself, finding truth in chaos.

Reckless Years

A Diary of Love and Madness

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2018

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Summary

The “searingly honest, brilliantly written” memoir of a woman trying to reinvent her life who finds, after her divorce, that true freedom to make any choice means being free to make every mistake.

“What to do now, I don’t know. You see, I no longer love my husband.”

A thirty-something journalist living in Brooklyn, Heather Chaplin has to acknowledge the obvious: her marriage is over, and her career is stagnating. When she summons the courage to leave her husband behind, her li…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781501135002
ISBN-10:1501135007
Author:Heather Chaplin
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Imprint:Simon & Schuster
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:1 September 2018
Weight:276g
Dimensions:173mm x 189mm
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Critics Review

“Chaplin’s epistolary memoir, extracted from two years of recovered emails and journals she’d kept beginning in 2006, chronicles the dramatic, adventurous, and heartbreaking story of a restless married woman who’d fallen out of love with her husband of 13 years…[A] satisfying memoir that will appeal most to women who’ve found themselves fleeing hopeless relationships.” –Kirkus Reviews “Shocking, searingly honest, disturbing, brilliantly written. Reading this memoir is like being in a car speeding into an explosion and miraculously coming out the other side. Thank God. It would be awful if a writer this talented hadn’t made it.” -Delia Ephron, author of SIRACUSA

“Reckless Years is a stunningly forensic account of the end of a marriage and its aftermath, which combines the honesty of memoir with the urgency of good fiction and a dry wit that, for all the darkness of the story, makes Chaplin a joy to spend time with.” -Emma Brockes, author of SHE LEFT ME THE GUN

About The Author

Heather Chaplin

Heather Chaplin is a writer living in Brooklyn. She’s written about all kinds of things in her journalism career and is the founding director of the Journalism + Design program at The New School. In the evenings, she can be found taking ballet classes she has no business attending but does anyway. Reckless Years is her second book.

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