Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy Audiobook (Free)

Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her existence and the person she shared it with, paying tribute to her hubby, Pat Conroy, the famous figures of modern Southern literature.

Cassandra King was leading a quiet life like a teacher, divorced “Weekend wife” of the preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy.

Their friendship bloomed right into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately married, partly because Pat hated the commute from seaside South about Inform Me A TALE: My Life with Pat Conroy Carolina to her indigenous Alabama. It had been a union that could last eighteen years, until the favorite literary icon’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2016.

Within this poignant, intimate memoir, the woman he known as King Ray looks back at her love affair with a natural-born storyteller whose lust forever was fueled with a passion for literature, food, and the Carolina Lowcountry that was his house. As she shows on their relationship and the eighteen years they spent jointly, cut short by Pat’s passing at seventy, Cassandra reveals the way the marshlands of the SC Lowcountry ultimately cast their spell on her behalf, too, and how she found understand the convivial, ample, funny, and wounded flesh-and-blood man beneath the legend-her hubby, the original Prince of Tides.