This a divorce memoir that is about so much more than divorce. The book cover of Maggie Smith's memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful." Simon & SchusterAdvertisementMy divorce nearly a decade ago and its inciting incident, settings and foreshadowing looked completely different and the same as Smith’s. And thank her for her realistic optimism because we immediately know this memoir is about optimism when we open the book. “I’ve had to move into — and through — the darkness to find the beauty.” Smith writes on page one.

Source: Huffington Post April 19, 2023 21:55 UTC