This week saw the airing of the finale of the BBC legal drama The Split. The popular TV show has been running for three seasons and has had viewers gripped by lives of the Defoe family, two generations of female lawyers living and practising divorce law in London.
A key storyline throughout this final season sees top divorce lawyer Hannah Stern and her estranged husband Nathan, himself a family law barrister, try to navigate a path of divorcing one another amicably. It becomes clear as the story ensues that this is not an easy path to follow, even for those who make their living from divorcing others.
Without giving too much away, a thoughtful Hannah reflects in the finale; "I tell my clients that it's easy to marry, what's hard is to know how to divorce. After the shouting, after the war, I tell my clients if they can lay down their weapons, their accusations, their resentments, their regrets, wait for the ringing in their ears to be silenced and for the dust to settle on what's left of their lives - if they can stop and breathe and listen to what life has to offer next, sometimes they have been battling for so long they've forgotten that above the parapet, there's birdsong."
