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It Rains In February: A Wife's Memoir of Love and Loss (edición 2011)

por Leila Summers (Autor)

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On the 24th of February 2007 my husband, Stuart, drowned himself at sea, leaving me widowed with two young daughters aged six and four. I knew it wasn't an accident, even though the medics and police never suspected suicide. Stuart had been talking about ending his life for a year. His most recent suicide attempt had been only three weeks earlier.… (más)
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Título:It Rains In February: A Wife's Memoir of Love and Loss
Autores:Leila Summers (Autor)
Información:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2011), Edition: First, 246 pages
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It Rains in Februay: a Wife’s Memoir of Love and Loss. Lelia Summers. 2011.
Summers’ husband committed suicide, and Summers writes this book to explain his life and death to her two daughters. She writes to her husband and describes the last year of his life in detail. Clearly this man was mentally ill, and while it may have been admirable for Summers to stay with him and try to save him after he confessed that he loved one of her best friends, I don’t think it was the wisest. I found it depressing to read about such a brilliant man who wasted his life. It was set in South Africa which must have been one of the reasons I chose it. I am sure it was free on Kindle. I am not sure that it would provide any comfort to someone who lost a spouse to suicide ( )
  judithrs | Jan 18, 2013 |
I am finding it really hard to write this review. I don't quite know how to describe how I felt about this book. On the one hand I felt that it was written well and it drew me in easily, and on the other hand I became extremely angered by the actions of multiple people in this book and was very close to giving up reading this book. Ultimately I decided to keep reading this book and I am glad that I did.

I have to commend the author for her writing style. She told her story beautifully and her inclusion of emails really enhanced the story for me. I could really tell that writing this book was very cathartic for her and it made me even more interested in her story.

I definitely had a hard time getting past some of the actions of not only the author, in regards to her husband, but also her husband's family. While reading this book I continued to switch between pity for Robyn and anger towards her. At the end of the book I mainly just felt sad for Robyn and her daughters who have to live without Stuart being there. They didn't choose for their life to be this way. ( )
  dpappas | Aug 30, 2012 |
Memoirs are not my favourite books to read. Very often, when I get review requests for them, I find a kind way to turn them down. When Leila Summers approached me asking if I would review her memoir, It Rains in February: A Wife's Memoir of Love and Loss I must have been having a particularly off day because I said yes. Thank goodness for that particularly off day.

It Rains in February is written from the point of view of the author in the form of a sort of letter to her late husband outlining the fear, pain, love and agony she experience as he was sucked into a vortex of mental illness that eventually resulted in his suicide.

What surprised me the most about this epistle is the gentle and honest tone of the writing. Leila Summers (aka Robin) bares her soul in her writing and allows the reader into, what must be, the most painful and personal moments in her life. She doesn't try to excuse her decisions or behaviour or the behaviour of Stuart, her husband. She doesn't place blame for his illness or his actions on anyone. She simply (I can't believe I just used that word - I'm sure none of this was simple at all) opens her heart and lets it bleed over the pages. The result is a powerful, honest, loving remembrance.

For anyone wanting to understand mental illness from the point of view of those who love the sufferers, this book should fall into the category of required reading. For anyone who has ever said 'I don't understand how someone could kill themselves.' It Rains in February should be required reading. For those suffering from a mental illness wanting to understand how anyone could love them ... you get the idea.

Kudos to Ms Summers for having written about a devastating, life-altering experience without succumbing to sappy, overly sentimental drivel. There were many times, as I read the book, that I wondered how I would react if faced with similar circumstances. We all will face calamities in our own lives. I'm sure that we will all make our own decisions based on our belief systems and life experiences. One day, when I look back over the difficult times in my life, I hope I will see that I have dealt with them with the same grace, forgiveness and love that Leila drew upon during this time in her life. ( )
1 vota DanaBurgess | Feb 13, 2012 |
One woman’s memoir of her husband’s spiral into mental illness and suicide

Robyn and Stuart are, happily married (she thinks) with two children so when he says he is in love with another woman her life falls apart. Worse though is the fact that Stuart leaves his family but the woman he loves doesn’t join him and Stuart becomes suicidal. Robyn tries everything she can possibly think of to try to save him from self destruction as she still loves him and she still wants him in the children’s life. One tactic was to create a woman, Leila Summers, to try and connect to Stuart through a joint love of music and literature. This memoir is written in the form of a letter to Stuart after he is gone and includes a number of letters and e-mails. Knowing that this is a true story makes it a powerful one but although a lot is revealed you are left with many questions. The main question being that why, if Stuart is so incredibly and nastily selfish (albeit with obvious mental health issues), does Robyn continue to love him so much and refuse to be angry with him? A short novel I read in one sitting with excellent prose. Robyn states at the end that everyone may have their opinion about what she should have done but this is a memoir of what she actually did.

Overall – poignant memoir of love, loss and recovery ( )
  psutto | Feb 8, 2012 |
It Rains In February: A Wife's Memoir of Love and Loss by Leila Summers
My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Wow, this book was truly AMAZING! I read this book in one sitting which is rare for me(slow reader) but I couldn't find the strength to put it down. I found myself experiencing every heart-breaking moment with the character Robyn as she took me through her journey of life,love,loss,hope, and finally freedom.Robyn a wife of two children finds out that her husband, Stuart of seven years(hope I'm correct) is having an affair and is dangerously in love with another women. Robyn's life is torn apart as her family has to struggle with the emotional roller coaster ride that Stuart takes them on. In this story Robyn has to learn that loving someone is not enough to make them love you back, and that no matter how much you love someone it can't always save them.This book made me look at my own life and how it is important to love one another. Never take for granted those close to you, you never know what they may be going through or what demons are hidden within in their soul. This story was raw and real, a confession from a wife coping with loss and her disturbing adventures of finding freedom within herself. Thus, enabling herself to let go of the hurt and have the strength to tell her story.

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  lamecia | Dec 25, 2011 |
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On the 24th of February 2007 my husband, Stuart, drowned himself at sea, leaving me widowed with two young daughters aged six and four. I knew it wasn't an accident, even though the medics and police never suspected suicide. Stuart had been talking about ending his life for a year. His most recent suicide attempt had been only three weeks earlier.

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