I Married You For Happiness

His hand is growing cold, still she holds it, is how this riveting, deeply moving story of a forty-three year old marriage begins. Unfolding over a single night, Nina sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death prompts her to remember their long marriage. The story explores their relationship, beginning with their first meeting in Paris. She is an artist, he a mathematician—a collision of different worlds that formed a passionate love. The book is an elegy to a marriage, and a meditation on probability and chance in life and the afterlife.