Belle Burden

But at 6 in the morning, he came into my room fully dressed with a tote bag packed.

And his whole affect had changed.

It was very cold.

His eyes were very icy.

And he said to me, I've decided I want a divorce.

i thought i was happy but i'm not and i'm going to leave right now and he did he walked out of our house he got in his jeep he got on a ferry and he left the island and it was um that moment that he became someone i really did not recognize he became a stranger therefore the book strangers there it is

I'm so glad to be here.

It's so exciting.

Oh, Bell, the people are talking about this book.

They really are.

I'm hearing from so many women around the world, and it's really surprised me in the most wonderful way.

It did.

And I thought when I wrote it that it would be a quiet book, that it would sort of get known by word of mouth, that women would talk about it a little bit.

But I did not expect this kind of response.

But it really is women reading it, seeing themselves in it.

Yes, very, very expensive bed in January.

And this happened in March, two months later.

And he had picked out the mattress.

Okay, so you're thinking if you're getting this expensive mattress,

that it's at least for, you know, 10 years maybe.