Bluefish Books · Memoir
Diary of a Wayward Widow
Love, betrayal, loss and the possibility of beginning again.
About the book
After her husband Max dies on the summer solstice, Willow begins a diary of life as a widow. What happened that afternoon is difficult to put into words, and her husband has left secrets of his own.
As she unravels the past, the question becomes how to build a future. Caroline Fabre’s book explores grief, the complications of love and the uncertain work of finding hope again.
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Diary of a Wayward Widow by Caroline Fabre
I still can’t talk about the ending. About that stormy afternoon of the summer solstice; the longest day of the year, the longest day of my life. And yet the question arises again and again. How exactly did it happen, people enquire – without any sense of shame? It is human nature, after all, this insatiable curiosity around a tragedy, a desperate need to know the details. As if by knowing, we can rest in peace in the knowledge it would never happen to us.
Everybody wants to know how the story ends, how a life can be brutally cut short without warning. I wish they would ask about the living years instead, how he and I had met and fallen in love, about his talent for restoring old buildings, his love of speed and surfing, his altruism – even though that would end up having repercussions for all of us.
I would talk about anything rather than that midsummer afternoon when the earth tilted on its axis, and I was to learn the true meaning of the phrase, ‘no good deed goes unpunished’.
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