What She Did Next, Eve Simmons
What She Did Next, Eve Simmons
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What She Did Next
What to Do When the Life You Planned is F**ked Up

Author: Eve Simmons

Narrator: Eve Simmons

Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dialogue Books

Published: 01/15/2026


Synopsis

'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.

About Eve Simmons

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Susie on January 24, 2026

Beautiful writing style from real and honest lived experiences. The book does heavily sway on the UK legal system for reference, so not entirely relatable for those living in Australia or other countries.......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on December 12, 2025

beautiful personal writing mixed with original reporting - would recommend to anyone going through a break up / divorce / blindsiding in a relationship of some kind as it goes into the psychological aspects of the latter really well......more

Goodreads review by lizzi on January 27, 2026

This book is great. If you know you know. Unbelievably relatable and some really interesting facts and research......more


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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.