When Isabel Gillies' husband took a teaching job at a Midwestern college, Isabel and their sons moved with him from New York City to Ohio, where Isabel taught acting, threw herself into the college community, and delighted in the less-scheduled lives of toddlers raised away from the city. But within a few months, the marriage was over. The life Isabel had made crumbled. "Happens every day," said a friend.
Far from a self-pitying diatribe,
Happens Every Day reads like an intimate conversation between friends. On the one hand, reading the book is like watching a train wreck. On the other, as Gillies herself says, it is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness. "By turns enlightening, funny, gut-wrenching, this is a great read about one of the great truths in life: you can't control what happens to you, you can only control how you react," says Library Journal. "Highly recommended."
Isabel Gillies, known for her television role as Detective Stabler's wife on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and for her cinematic debut in the film
Metropolitan, graduated from New York University with a BFA in film.
A New York Times bestseller,
Happens Every Day is her first book.
