The title of this true story, “A Box of Darkness - The Story of a Marriage” fits very well. Sally Ryder Brady’s book is powerful and well written, and tells the story of a woman discovering unsettling things about her husband - after he dies suddenly. Though on the surface, and in public, the marriage seems one to be envied; underneath the relationship is filled with the many complexities of intertwining two adult lives.
“A Box of Darkness” however, also reveals that one of the couple’s lives is much more diverse - and difficult to accept by his partner. The book rehashes Sally and Upton’s decades of married life together and is Sally’s attempt to discover, or accept, that even though her husband ‘strayed’, he really did love her.
Sally Ryder Brady’s book leaves one feeling that ‘there except for the grace of God’… go any one of us, and undoubtedly leaves many of it’s readers contemplating the difficult decisions that such a situation must undoubtedly create.
I usually read 2 or 3 books at a time - but every once in awhile I hit a book that I just can’t put down - “A Box of Darkness - The Story of a Marriage” by Sally Ryder Brady is one of those books.
I received this book for free, to review from ‘First Reads’, part of Goodreads.com. I am a member of Goodreads, Librarything, Book Divas and the Penguin book club.
