What She Did Next

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780349705095
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 158 x 238mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Jan 2026
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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'An honest and helpful guide to what happens when life doesn't go according to plan. I know so many people who need this.' Elizabeth Day

'Dear Eve Simmons, your husband has applied for a divorce,' it read.

All I was required to do was click the link enclosed and select if I agreed or disagreed. I ticked the box titled 'agree', bit off a chunk of my nail and looked at the screen, thinking, now what?

What happens when 'happily ever after' ends too soon?


Eve Simmons had the life she thought she wanted: love, a home, a future, security. Then, overnight, it was gone. Her husband left with no explanation. No conversation. No closure.

Thrown into a heartbreak she never saw coming, the award-winning journalist did what she does best: she investigated. What she discovered was startling - her story wasn't rare. A growing number of women are being blindsided by sudden, unexplained break-ups. Some are mourning long-term relationships and others marriages that had barely begun.

In What She Did Next, Simmons blends gripping memoir with original reporting to uncover the hidden dynamics driving modern lovers apart, from emotional avoidance and burnout to shifting expectations of intimacy.

This is a powerful, timely book of love, loss and the courage to begin again.

Eve Simmons is a journalist and author based in London, and is currently health editor of MailOnline. She has dedicated much of her career to sharing personal difficulties in the hope of helping others with similar struggles feel less alone. This has extended from the eating disorder she survived in her early 20s, to understanding the long-term impact of parental death in childhood, to unexpected divorce. It's not as dark and gloomy as it sounds; she endeavours to offer plenty of laughs (sometimes inappropriately) along the way.

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