Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Paperback Published on: 29/04/2027
Price: £10.99
Publisher information
- Publisher: Ebury Publishing
- ISBN: 9781529936131
- Number of pages: 320
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
- Weight: 229g
- Languages: English
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Honest and heartbreaking
Memoir about the end of a marriage and the aftershocks throughout the family. Well written and I could sense the writer’s determination to be as even hande... READ MORE
Memoir of a marriage breakdown
Strangers has had a lot of publicity before and since its publication. I found it a well written memoir of the breakdown of a marriage although I did wonde... READ MORE
Different
This is a very different book, classed as non-fiction as it's the true story of a breakdown of a marriage.
It is a story that many women are familiar wi... READ MORE
When the one who says they love you, LEAVES
A very powerful story about moving on after the one who says they love you, leaves. To me, the story is definitely a roller coaster as Belle describes her... READ MORE
Raw Memoir
Belle Burden has written an honest and raw memoir about the sudden breakdown in her marriage. How the husband she had been with for over twenty years sudde... READ MORE
Deeply personal and beautifully written
Strangers by Belle Burden reads like a modern-day Heartburn by Nora Ephron, but with a far rawer emotional register. Where Ephron used wit as both shield a... READ MORE
honest and heart breaking account of a sudden marriage dissolution
An honest and heart breaking account of a sudden marriage dissolution. When your husband of 20 years suddenly walks out on you and your 3 children. Cuttin... READ MORE
Five stars!
Strangers is a beautifully written and emotionally resonant book that explores the sudden collapse of a long marriage and the slow, painful process of rebu... READ MORE
Interesting insights
Overall I enjoyed this book although I did feel rather like a voyeur; I don't know the author or her family but I was reading intimate details of her marri... READ MORE
Emotional rollercoaster
An emotional book of how the authors life changed following her husband's affair and the subsequent divorce. A rollercoaster of a book with the emotional t... READ MORE
Devastating implosion of a marriage
This is a brilliant but, quite frankly, jaw-dropping account of the implosion of Belle Burden's marriage. It took my breath away.
Belle and her husband ... READ MORE
Beautifully written and compelling
I wouldn't have expected to describe a memoir detailing the breakdown of a marriage as riveting but this truly is an almost unputdownable book. Belle Bur... READ MORE
Almost cruel in its honesty
Grief takes many forms. Divorce is one of them and hard to reconcile, making closure more difficult.
Articulate and elegant, Strangers is almost cruel in ... READ MORE
Ospreys do it all so much better : instinct stronger than me, me, me.
This is not the kind of book I would generally request but it was the praise for Burden’s writing by Joyce Carol Oates which made me try this, I’m happy I ... READ MORE
Interesting, thought provoking, doesnt shy away from unpalatable truths
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book.
3.5 rounded up to 4.
This is a very interesting read about a woman who was ta... READ MORE
An incredible story of loss and self discovery
Absolutely un-put-downable. Burden writes honestly and openly about the raw and unexplained loss whilst bringing you on her journey of self re discovery. U... READ MORE
honest
I liked this book. I am a divorce lawyer and initially picked it up to gain some perspective from the author as many of my clients have also been divorced ... READ MORE
Anger
I want to start by saying that I had no idea Martha's Vineyard was an island. I guess thought it was Martha Stewart's vineyard - no idea why. So I've learn... READ MORE
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