The Split, about a family of divorce lawyers, has started filming its third series.Divorce is also the subject of my new novel, Did You Miss Me?, which has a divorce lawyer as its heroine.
My parents went through a bitter divorce when I was eight, and I’ve long been fascinated by the bizarre world these professionals inhabit.‘Dried hydrangeas,’ says one lawyer friend I spoke to for research. ‘I know of a case where it came down to the wire over dried hydrangeas.’ This seems extreme, especially as sorting out this row would have cost more than the flowers, given that lawyers bill around £600 an hour.
But having now interviewed some of Britain’s top divorce counsel, I’ve discovered that levels of pedantry and vitriol have peaked during the.
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