Belle Burden

During the first week of the pandemic, I was with my husband and my two daughters, and we were having a very cozy, wonderful time during a very scary time in the world.

I believed I was happily married.

to a wonderful man, a great father and great husband.

And then one day he told me he wanted a divorce.

He gave me no explanation and he walked out.

And then he shared our entire life together, including custody of our children.

Modern Love started there and went a little bit farther.

And then my book really explores what happened afterwards.

So it was published in The Times on June 30th of 2023, which was very exciting for me.

I had submitted it to the general email box and never imagined it would get published.

And once it was published, I did not really imagine anything after that.

I had always wanted to be a writer when I was a teenager, but I

was told when I was in college that I could not write by another classmate.

And I stopped writing for 30 years and became a lawyer.

So this is published and I got emails from two different editors at two different publishing houses who said, this should be a book and you need a literary agent.

And I thought about that and was felt very flattered.

And a friend sent to me, but this is the end, right?

You're not going to write a book.

And I had a full body feeling.

Yes, I am going to write a book.