Isabel Gillies Biography

Perhaps best known for role as Kathy Stabler on Law & Order: SVU Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life — a handsome intelligent loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly that life was over. Her husband announced that he was leaving her and their two young sons.
She and her sons moved back in with her parents and she struggled to put her life back together. Her first book Happens Every Day is a candid story about love marriage family heartbreak and the unexpected turns of a life. According to Gillies it is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness and loving your life even if it has slipped away. Called instinctive funny and irresistible Happens Every Day became a New York Times bestseller and was featured by Starbucks as a nationwide selection for its book program. NPR's Fresh Air selected it as a Top Ten Book of 2009.
In her second book A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story 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.

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