Audiobook8 hours
Reckless Years: A Diary of Love and Madness
Written by Heather Chaplin
Narrated by Heather Chaplin
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
()
About this audiobook
The “searingly honest, brilliantly written” (Delia Ephron, New York Times bestselling author) 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 life turns into an emotional roller coaster. She is soon dating a cast of characters in New York until an impulsive trip to Ireland thrusts her into the orb of a magnetic man named Kieran. But just when she believes herself to be on the brink of what she’d always wanted, a series of setbacks throw her into a volatile spiral downwards. Her independence becomes a frightening prison. As she struggles to find her way back to the world she once knew, she must confront the reality of the past to find her way to the possibilities of her future.
Narrated with a uniquely provocative voice, Reckless Years is a raw, propulsive debut: unfailingly profound and impossible to put down. Chaplin writes about all the things women aren’t supposed to say or feel: rage, manipulation, sexual desire—even madness. “Dramatic, adventurous, and heartbreaking” (Kirkus Reviews), yet ultimately redemptive, it is the story of losing yourself in the middle of a comeback and finding yourself in the most surprising of places.
“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 life turns into an emotional roller coaster. She is soon dating a cast of characters in New York until an impulsive trip to Ireland thrusts her into the orb of a magnetic man named Kieran. But just when she believes herself to be on the brink of what she’d always wanted, a series of setbacks throw her into a volatile spiral downwards. Her independence becomes a frightening prison. As she struggles to find her way back to the world she once knew, she must confront the reality of the past to find her way to the possibilities of her future.
Narrated with a uniquely provocative voice, Reckless Years is a raw, propulsive debut: unfailingly profound and impossible to put down. Chaplin writes about all the things women aren’t supposed to say or feel: rage, manipulation, sexual desire—even madness. “Dramatic, adventurous, and heartbreaking” (Kirkus Reviews), yet ultimately redemptive, it is the story of losing yourself in the middle of a comeback and finding yourself in the most surprising of places.
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.
Related to Reckless Years
Related audiobooks
And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About Therapy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSwanna in Love Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This Might Be Too Personal: And Other Intimate Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beside Herself Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Wholly Unraveled: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don’t Ask Me About My Dad: A Memoir of Love, Hate and Hope Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBandit: A Daughter's Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Playing Dead: A Memoir of Terror and Survival Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Commencement Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Anxiously Ever After: An Honest Memoir on Mental Illness, Strained Relationships, and Embracing the Struggle Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You've Been So Lucky Already: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Too Good to Be True: A Memoir Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Barbara the Slut and Other People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Naked in the Rideshare: Stories of Gross Miscalculations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInventing the Abbotts: And Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRiding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Denial: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mama Still Got It Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If You Love Me: True love. True terror. True story. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Some Girls: My Life in a Harem Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Muriel Avenue Sluts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHope Fights Back: Fifty Marathons and a Life-or-Death Race Against ALS Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Personal Memoirs For You
I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Counting the Cost Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Woman in Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Finding Me: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enough Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Making It So: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Built for This: The Quiet Strength of Powerlifting Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pageboy: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Summer of Fall: Gravity is a bitch, but I'm still standing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quitting: Why I Left My Job to Live a Life of Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dad at Peace Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love, Lucy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Glass Castle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5See You on the Way Down: Catch You on the Way Back Up! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angela's Ashes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Stolen Life: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Reckless Years
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
2 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book, the author assures us, is completely based on diaries she kept as she separated from her husband. She has amazing adventures with fantastic (yet real )characters, survives extremes of pain and joy, faces madness and grief, loves and loses. Honest, fascinating, and often laugh-out-loud funny.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Awfully boring book. Nothing happens besides the rants of a bitter , immature woman against her husband. Skip this one!