'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.