Book cover of Infidelity and Other Affairs

Book description

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…

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

1 author picked Infidelity and Other Affairs as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I read this non-fiction book at the right time. 

It’s because a Baby Boomer wrote it, sharing her experience after her husband confessed to having an affair with one of her best friends. 

No, neither me nor my husband have had an affair. But I’m a Gen Xer who’s reaching a major milestone on my next birthday, and the author’s reflections on infidelity and life in general, put my own life in perspective.

On a flight home I read the words, “It is not our partner we are turning away from, but the person we have become.” I put down…

If you love Infidelity and Other Affairs...

Ad

Book cover of The High House

The High House by James Stoddard,

The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.

The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

Want books like Infidelity and Other Affairs?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 64 books like Infidelity and Other Affairs.

Browse books like Infidelity and Other Affairs

Book cover of Not Just Friends: Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity
Book cover of Private Lies: Infidelity and the Betrayal of Intimacy
Book cover of The Spider

Share your top 3 reads of 2025!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,210

readers submitted
so far, will you?

Ad

📚 If you like Infidelity and Other Affairs, you might also like...

Book cover of Aggressor

Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of The Duke's Christmas Redemption

The Duke's Christmas Redemption by Arietta Richmond,

A Duke who has rejected love, a Lady who dreams of a love match, an arranged marriage, a house full of secrets, a most unneighborly neighbor, a plot to destroy reputations, an unexpected love that redeems it all.

Lady Charlotte Wyndham, given in an arranged marriage to a man she…

5 book lists we think you will like!