
This vivid and honest memoir is a tribute to the author and a testimony to the resilience of the human spirit." " What Remains explores the complexities of marriage and the importance of friendship with unflinching honesty. . . . The reader feels he or she has peeked into the author’s soul and glimpsed courage, wisdom, and love."Ī beautifully written and deeply moving memoir. " What Remains is a testimony to the human spirit. Love and loss, family and friends, fate and fortune: these themes pervade this beautifully written . . . Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Chief International Correspondent A spirited journalist with a novelist’s eye for detail, she delivers a stunningly honest story about life’s great joys and deepest pain.

a highly compelling read.Ĭarole Radziwill has written an unsparing, unsentimental, and inspiring memoir. Carole Radziwill is a natural storyteller. It’s impossible not to admire the author’s courage and devotion and skill.Ī stunning memoir of love and loss . . . tells her story with graceful discretion and quiet power.Ī moving testimony to the tenuous nature of love and life. “Friendship, compassion, destiny.” Read more Beautifully written, What Remains “gets at the essence of what matters,” wrote Oprah Winfrey. With unflinching honesty and a journalist’s keen eye, Carole Radziwill explores the enduring ties of family, the complexities of marriage, the importance of friendship, and the challenges of self-invention. Three weeks later Anthony dies of cancer. Kennedy Jr., Anthony’s cousin, and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Carole’s closest friend. A small plane plunges into the ocean carrying John F. What Remains begins with loss and returns to loss. Her marriage led her into the old world of European nobility and the newer world of American aristocracy. Her career at ABC News led her to the refugee camps of Cambodia, to a bunker in Tel Aviv, and to the scene of the Menendez murders. At nineteen, she struck out for New York City to find a different life. Carole grew up in a small suburb with a large, eccentric cast of characters.


What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow.
