Rate this book

Worse Things Happen At Sea (2011)

by William McInnes(Favorite Author)

4.09 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0733628028 (ISBN13: 9780733628023)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Hachette Australia

review 1: William McInnes and Sarah Watt’s personal take on the simplicity yet messiness of everyday life is a pure joy to read. Worse Things Happen at Sea is about two famous Australians in the television, film and writing industry; yet two very ordinary people who live through the day-to-day stuff we all do: raising children, renovating homes, coping with the illness of love ones, making mistakes, fixing things and not being able to fix things. The fact that Sarah Watt died after a battle with cancer last November left me devastated that I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t know her personally, but for a short time she let me into her life through this wonderful memoir. She introduced me to her children and welcomed me into her home. The wri... moreting of the chapters is shared between the couple and each is a lesson in living for the moment; not for tomorrow.
review 2: Part family history, part vignettes of everyday life, this is a confronting book in many ways, as it's meditations on mortality and facing the unpredictability of life ring starkly true. I found this book all the more heartbreaking in the knowledge that Sarah Watt (McInnes' wife and the book's co-author) died in late October, not long after the book's publication, after a long battle with cancer (something she shares honestly and beautifully in her chapters). This book is essentially about courage. Extraordinary courage that ordinary people, like Watt and McInnes, face every day. It's about not taking the little things for granted and being grateful that for every curve ball life throws at you, there are also a million, beautiful little stars. less

Download links for: Worse Things Happen at Sea

Advertising