Overview
- In Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, published this week with excerpts in The Sunday Times, Belle Burden recounts discovering an alleged affair via a stranger’s voicemail.
- Burden writes that the caller identified himself as the husband of the younger colleague involved and that Henry Davis admitted the relationship when confronted.
- She reports that the other woman’s spouse later texted that she had attempted suicide, a message Burden includes as part of her account.
- According to the memoir, Davis told Burden the next day he wanted a divorce, left without saying goodbye to their children, and said she could keep the homes and have full custody.
- Burden says Davis soon bought a two‑bedroom Manhattan apartment and converted the second bedroom into an office, and she writes he now sees the children only occasionally; outlets note Davis has not provided a detailed response.