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Affairs

True Stories of Love, Lies, Hope and Desire
By Juliet Rosenfeld
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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... Read More
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These true accounts of five real affairs, told, examined and analyzed by expert psychologist Juliet Rosenfeld, will change everything you thought you knew about infidelity. Perfect for fans of TV show Couples Therapy and Esther Perel's Where Should We Begin podcast.

An eye-opening, judgement-free exposΓ© on the real reasons that people have affairs, from psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld.

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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

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035001330

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bluebird

Edition: International edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 358g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Juliet Rosenfeld is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author, living and working in London. In both her clinical work and writing, she has a special interest in grief and love (as the two are often so profoundly entwined). Juliet's writing has been published in The Times, The Guardian and The Observer, amongst others, and she has appeared on podcasts, panels and at events, speaking about topics of love, loss and grief within a psychoanalytical framework. Her first book, The State of Disbelief: A Story of Death, Love and Forgetting, was published in 2020. In it, Juliet tells the story of the diagnosis, illness and death of her husband from lung cancer and how the experience turned everything she had learnt about death as a psychotherapist on its head.

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