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 *