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Retirement After Divorce — from The Hard Days Collection

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Retirement After Divorce

Getting Through Two Endings That Land at the Same Time

by William “Billy” Brown

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About the book

A quiet reckoning, written plainly

This isn’t a book about dating again later in life — that’s covered elsewhere in this series. This one is about what happens when retirement and divorce land close together, and two major sources of identity and structure end at once rather than one at a time.

What readers will find inside

The practical realities of a pension split. Rebuilding identity outside both work and marriage. And building a retirement genuinely chosen on your own terms, rather than one shaped by whatever ended first. Written plainly, for two endings arriving at the same door.

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Chapter One

From the opening pages

This isn’t a book about dating again later in life — that’s covered elsewhere in this series. This one is about what happens when retirement and divorce land close together, and two major sources of identity and structure end at once rather than one at a time.

This short book covers the practical realities of a pension split, rebuilding identity outside both work and marriage, and building a retirement genuinely chosen on your own terms.

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About the author

William “Billy” Brown

William “Billy” Brown
Billy, at home in Scotland

Billy is a Scottish engineer, author and musician who spent more than thirty years working around the world before he ever thought of himself as a writer.

He writes from lived experience rather than theory — about work, love, distance, and the quieter lessons a working life hands over.

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