Browsing through the beautiful memories of her Eastern European childhood and, later, the hardship of her life during the Balkan conflicts and as a non-EU immigrant in Britain, Ivana Kelly sifts through the personal recollections of "stable, happy" marriages all around her, both from the past and present, and wonders if, apart from very few exceptions, " happy" marriages may have always been and will be, for most of us, just a fantasy concealed behind a mask of pretence. Having had a marriage from hell and a chilling divorce in the notorious British secret family courts, the author stumbles...