Infidelity and Other Affairs
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What Lisa Taddeo did for female desire, Kate Legge does for adultery.
Annabel Crabb
'Unflinchingly investigating the value of monogamy and the true cost of betrayal.'
Trent Dalton
What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you confront living on your own? In amongst parents dying, careers ending and becoming a grandparent?
As a journalist, Kate Legge often seeks answers to how people reckon with bad luck or bad decisions. When faced with her husband's affair, she discovered a fault line of betrayal running through four generations
of his family, which began a search for answers both close to home and more universally.
Infidelity and Other Affairs begins with this puzzle: is unfaithfulness a predisposition or a learned behaviour? From there, Legge contemplates a vast catalogue of behaviours as she strives to understand how we
become who we are.
To her own surprise, she finds strength and peace over revenge and hate, as well as joy in unexpected places.
'There is a list of words a reviewer - I mean me - will never use. One is "brave". I'm breaking this rule. There is no word more apt than brave for Kate Legge's Infidelity and Other Affairs.' -The Age
'A wonderfully thoughtful, mature and somewhat eclectic exploration of the breakdown of a marriage and Legge's endurance through and beyond it ... Legge has a gift of illuminating the ordinary, forcing us to take a closer look at the banal, everyday beauty that surrounds us.' -The Conversation
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Praise for Infidelity and Other Affairs
A wonderfully thoughtful, mature and somewhat eclectic exploration of the breakdown of a marriage and Legge's endurance through and beyond it ... Legge has a gift of illuminating the ordinary, forcing us to take a closer look at the banal, everyday beauty that surrounds us.
The Conversation
There is a list of words a reviewer - I mean me - will never use. One is 'brave'. I'm breaking this rule. There is no word more apt than brave for Kate Legge's Infidelity and Other Affairs.
The Age
Utterly compelling, deeply complex, achingly beautiful, heartbreakingly clear-headed, frequently saddening but more frequently wondrous, and always honest as f-k. Not unlike marriage when it works. One of Australia's finest writers unflinchingly investigating and illuminating the value of monogamy and the true cost of betrayal. But all of life is here, too, and all of love.
Trent Dalton
It's very hard to find an Australian writer who can portray others more virtuosically than Kate Legge. But now, when she turns her pen to the infidelity within her own marriage, she achieves something truly extraordinary; a pellucid study that is at once shocking and generous. It's so gripping that I crashed into a bin while reading it as I walked home from the train. I'm certain some will pick up this book out of curiosity and prurience. But having done so, they cannot fail to be entranced by Legge's bone-deep strength and wisdom, and her quiet instruction on building a whole life out of things that are broken.
Annabel Crabb
Kate Legge is an award-winning journalist and author who has chronicled social and political affairs since the 1980s. Her novel,The Unexpected Elements of Love, was long listed for the Miles Franklin award. Her non-fiction book, Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story was a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards.
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