STRANGERS by Belle Burden (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)

STRANGERS by Belle Burden (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)
Author: Belle Burden; Narrator: Belle Burden
Full title: Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Length: approximately 7 hours 30–40 minutes
Release date: January 2026
Genre/Categories: Nonfiction; Memoir; Marriage & divorce; Wealth & privilege

After twenty years of what looked like an enviable, old‑money New York marriage—three children, a Manhattan apartment, a Martha’s Vineyard summer house—Belle Burden’s husband announces, without warning at the start of the Covid pandemic, that he is leaving and wants nothing from their former life. The memoir revisits their relationship from courtship to collapse as she searches for missed signs, confronts her upbringing and the “Belle the Good” persona that taught her to be accommodating and discreet, and slowly rebuilds a new identity as a braver woman willing to expose the class, legal, and patriarchal structures that once kept her silent.