Eleanor Mills: Why midlife divorce is good for you (as long as you’re a woman)

In her latest column for the The Telegraph, former The Sunday Times editor Eleanor Mills looks at why thousands of ‘walkaway wives’ are calling time on their marriages – and discovering new levels of happiness in the process.

It wasn’t any one incident that convinced Pat*, 55, from Cheshire that she had to leave her husband – just 25 years of feeling taken for granted.