All at Sea: A Memoir
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.18 (972 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385540655 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water’s edge when a wave pulled him out to sea. When Decca and Tony first met, a decade earlier, she was a renowned Guardian journalist profiling leading politicians of the day; he was a dreadlocked criminal with a history of drug dealing and violence. Her partner, Tony, swam out and saved their son’s life—then drowned before her eyes. No one thought the romance would last, but it did—until the tide swept Tony away, plunging Decca into the dark chasm of random tragedy. Exploring race and redemption, privilege and prejudice,All at Sea is a breathtakingly honest, profound, and utterly unforgettable memoir.. All at Sea is a remarkable story of love and loss, of how one couple changed each other’s life, and of what a sudden death can do to the people who survive. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead’s life changed forever
DECCA AITKENHEAD is an award-winning journalist who conducts interviews with leading figures in public life for The Guardian. She lives in rural Kent with her two young sons.
"A renowned journalist finds unexpected love with a man who most would think would be" according to carilynp. What a remarkable story. Honesty, bravery and resilience. This memoir has it all. Decca Aitkenhead’s ALL AT SEA. A renowned journalist finds unexpected love with a man who most would think would be her polar opposite. She leaves her husband for him and her world is in bloom. Together they travel to her favorite beach in Jamaica with their two young sons. Out in the water, one of their sons gets caught up in the undertow and the love of her life swims out to rescue him, which he does, but he loses his own life in doing so. Needless to say, she unravels after that. The . A ruthlessly honest deep dive into the anatomy of grief S. McGee For anyone who has battled through a bereavement, this memoir of loss and a slow climb back to the start of a new kind of life will ring very true. Decca Aitkenhead was a child when she lost her mother, and in her early 40s when her partner, Tony, drowned in Jamaica, saving their young son, Jake; she resolved to write this book in part to capture her memories of him in words before losing them to time, as she had with those of her mother. In part, too, the reader senses, it was to avoid what happened following her mother's death, when the young Decca and her three siblings . "A raw story of grief and mourning" according to N. B. Kennedy. I read Decca Aitkenhead's article about her husband's drowning death in The Guardian, so I wasn't sure there was much more to the story that I needed to hear. But Ms. Aitkenhead has a lot to say about grief and mourning, so I am glad I gave this book a shot.Being an experienced journalist, Ms. Aitkenhead knows that we are all prurient at heart, so she writes about the drowning in the opening pages of the book. Sonali Deraniyagala understood the same thing when she wrote about the 200A raw story of grief and mourning N. B. Kennedy I read Decca Aitkenhead's article about her husband's drowning death in The Guardian, so I wasn't sure there was much more to the story that I needed to hear. But Ms. Aitkenhead has a lot to say about grief and mourning, so I am glad I gave this book a shot.Being an experienced journalist, Ms. Aitkenhead knows that we are all prurient at heart, so she writes about the drowning in the opening pages of the book. Sonali Deraniyagala understood the same thing when she wrote about the 2004 tsunami that killed her husband, sons and parents in her book, Wave. But whereas Ms. Deran. tsunami that killed her husband, sons and parents in her book, Wave. But whereas Ms. Deran
It is a thoughtful and provocative rumination on love, family and grief. It’s unforgettable."—People"A tour-de-force Aitkenhead is rigorously unsentimental and unsparingly honest No one who reads her brave and eloquent book will ever forget endearing Tony or their incandescent love story."—Boston Globe“An inspired portrait of an unconventional love story—he a drug-dealing ex-con, she an intellectual free spirit—stretching across lines of class, race, family history, and temperament. This is a star-crossed yet triumphant tale."—Elle“Aitkenhead’s memoir is a rare book to surface this summer: unsentimental, but still entirely heartbreaki