Innocent Spouse

Praise

“One can easily imagine the ladies of “The View” grilling Washington journalist Carol Ross Joynt about the financial and emotional soap opera chronicled in Innocent Spouse, her memoir of love, death, betrayal, survival, re-invention and major name-dropping.”–The Washington Post

“INNOCENT SPOUSE does a great job of highlighting a huge tax problem and
is entertaining to boot. A page-turning read about unexpected reversals of fortune.”–Forbes

“There are many memoirs by women who don’t know their husbands until they die…but none has the brutal irony of “Innocent Spouse…What makes this memoir exceptional is Carol Joynt’s unending honesty. She doesn’t spare herself — on many pages, she really does come off like an idiot…But she perseveres. She learns. She gets it right.”–Jesse Kornbluth, HeadButler.com

“A page-turning, name-dropping memoir…”-InStyle

“When a husband dies suddenly he often leaves his widow holding the bag. The choice is to crumble or carry on. Carol Joynt not only carried on but she came through victorious.”–Joan Rivers

“Carol Ross Joynt is more than an Innocent Spouse; her indomitable spirit prizes through in this compelling memoir of growth and accomplishment.  In the flood of widow memoirs, hers will stand out as a story of overcoming financial ruin, professional and personal deceptions, as well as losing the man she believed was the love of her life.”–Sally Ryder Brady, author of A Box of Darkness

“For those who read The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve and wondered how a loving husband could possibly keep a secret life hidden from his family, wonder no more: Carol Joynt reveals in sad and searing detail how it can happen and the price she, as a wife, had to pay to save herself and her young son.”–bestselling author Kitty Kelley

“A searing personal journey where the pages fall away from one’s hand like meat from a bone. Ms. Joynt takes on her life with both a hatchet and a scalpel and is unafraid to turn an unerring spotlight on herself, examining the flaws and mistakes from every angle. Yet what emerges from this fascinating story is a courageous woman who is a survivor and above all else a mother who would do anything for her child.”–bestselling author David Baldacci

“Think you know your husband?  Read this book.  Carol Joynt takes us on a harrowing roller-coaster ride through a system that viewed her as guilty until she proved her innocence.  A riveting, inspirational account of one woman’s dreamy life turned nightmare and her ultimate triumph. I couldn’t put it down.”–bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“An utterly compelling story of spousal deception, postmortem forgiveness, how NOT to run the hottest restaurant in DC, and the enduring power of love. You will read this memoir in one night, pages flying and heart racing.”– Leslie Morgan Steiner, author of Mommy Wars and the New York Times bestseller Crazy Love

“An honest telling of a woman betrayed by her husband whom she had loved and her determination to protect herself and her son.”–Publishers Weekly

“Engagingly written. . . .Very readable…inspiring.”–Booklist

“Excellent recounting of the author’s lost decade, during which she rebuilt her life, became self-sufficient and found peace following her husband’s deceit.”–Kirkus