'The book of 2025.' Mail on Sunday
Working late?
Midnight calls?
Suspicious texts?
One in five of us will have an affair in our lifetimes – but the reasons behind them might not be what you think.
Psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld shares the secrets, lies and motivations behind real affairs, through the lens of five very different true stories.
We meet the man who left his wife in the delivery suite to visit his young mistress and the psychologist who put attraction to a patient above career ethics. We hear from the surgeon who risked everything for someone he'd only ever spoken to online and the previously straight woman who cheated on her husband with a female colleague – and changed all of their lives.
In Affairs, this deeply-concealed but exceptionally common aspect of human behaviour is brought out into the light and explored without judgement or shame.
True personal stories, ground-breaking research and expert psychological analysis come together to change everything you have ever thought about infidelity.
'Hugely thoughtful and stimulating. . . Can't fail to leave us with new insights on our lives.' - Alain de Botton
'I found it brutal, heartbreaking and, in a strange way (after its tales had settled in me) inspiring.' - You Magazine
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Affairs 9781035001316 Hardback
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fairs: True Stories of Love, Hope and Desire
This book includes no critical consideration of the institution of marriage, with its still-heavily-legitimized gendered inequalities of labor, including emotional labor; and no awareness of the damning implications of the author's exclusive focus on members of the professional managerial class…
This book includes no critical consideration of the institution of marriage, with its still-heavily-legitimized gendered inequalities of labor, including emotional labor; and no awareness of the damning implications of the author's exclusive focus on members of the professional managerial class, who enjoy advantages of income and status that the vast majority of ordinary people lack by design. This is self-satisfied, intellectually vapid work.
- Authors:
- Rosenfeld, Juliet
- Year Published:
- 2025
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781035001316
- Number of Pages:
- 288
- Publication Date:
- 27/03/2025
- Publisher:
- Pan Macmillan
- Language:
- English
- Place of Publication:
- London
- SKU:
- 9781035001316