“Relationships are vexed”, writes Kate Legge in the early pages of her new book.
Legge has explored themes of love and marriage in her fiction before – 2006’s The Unexpected Elements of Love was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. But in Infidelity, Legge – also a journalist – uses her own experiences as the raw material, turning her reporter’s eye towards the infidelity of her husband, the former chief executive of Fairfax media, Greg Hywood (who she doesn’t name), and then, later, the infidelity of her son. Through that personal prism, she looks at the phenomenon of infidelity more broadly – the science and culture of it, the theories that surround it.
