Another memoirist has been outed as a fabulist, poor thing.
This time the offending writer is Belle Burden, a well-born wife and mother whose husband left her and their three children during the Covid-19 pandemic. To the heartbreak of abandonment was added the misery of financial uncertainty as Ms. Burden, a granddaughter of the society beauty Babe Paley, discovered how little control she retained of the marital coffers. Her 2026 memoir, “Strangers,” launched a thousand book groups and teaching modules and conversations about money and marriage and the importance, especially for stay-at-home spouses, of being able to look after oneself should one’s helpmeet bolt for the exit.
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