SOURCE: Huth, Angela. “Breaking Up.” Spectator (12 April 1975): 438.

In the following review, Huth compares the experience of divorce in America and England and deems Divorce a sober and monotonous book.

In 1915 an élite little band of 1,050 British married couples braced themselves for the unfamiliar ceremony of divorce. But no area is safe from inflation and in 1972 while some 480,000 people swore, in the act of marriage, to stick together for better or worse, 124,000 others, who had not reckoned how bad the worse could be, went through with the opposing celebration of divorce. Which leads one to conclude that divorce is now established as a booming British way of life, an escape route with which, unhappily, we are all too familiar. It is the unquestionable norm to be surrounded by people who have either been through it, are going through it, or are, at least—if only as the wildest fancy...