Isabel refused to pursue her career in New York and moved with her husband to a small university town in Ohio. However, after seven years of a perfect family life, her husband leaves her for another woman. Isabel stays alone with their two small children. But she is far from being miserable and never a victim, trying to build her life all over again. She relates her story as if she is talking to a close friend and shares sorrowful moments from her life in a light-hearted manner with sharp humor.

Gillies I. Happens every day : an all-too-true story / Isabel Gillies. - New York [a. o.] : Scribner, 2009. - 261 p.: ill. (Location - English reading room, catalogue code – 813 GIL)