The Downward Climb is rare exposure of raw reality that at times is appalling and traumatic, depressing and confusing. Alongside sadness and anger, you will find compassion, goodness, wisdom, happiness, and above all, immeasurable hope. It is about the suffocation of personal identity in the experience of serial infidelity and the attending emotional abuse kept secret and buried for 40 years. It is extraordinarily personal, yet many will identify with it and find extraordinary relief. "I told Mary her story was one of the most unusual and painful stories I ever heard. I have never known a...