'A novel of heartbreak told with intellectual rigor. It gripped me from first page to last. Fantastic!'
Alice Sebold, the author of The Lovely Bones
When Ester Nilsson meets the actor Olof Sten, she falls madly in love.
Olof makes no secret of being married, but he and Ester nevertheless start to meet regularly and begin to conduct a strange dance of courtship. Olof insists he doesn't plan to leave his wife, but he doesn't object to this new situation either . . . it's far too much fun.
Ester, on the other hand, is convinced that things might change. But as their relationship continues over repeated summers of distance, and winters of heated meetings in bars, she is forced to realize the truth: Ester Nilsson has become a mistress.
To read Acts of Infidelity is to dive inside the mind of a brilliant, infuriating friend - Ester's and Olof's entanglements and arguments are the stuff of relationship nightmares. Cutting, often cruel, and written with razor-sharp humour, Lena Andersson's novel is clever, painful, maddening, but most of all perfectly, precisely true.
'Wise and elegant - I can't stop thinking about it' Daily Mail
'Lena Andersson can do no wrong' Alice Sebold
'Electrifying' TLS
When Ester Nilsson meets actor Olof Sten, she falls madly in love.
Olof makes no secret of being married, but he and Ester nevertheless begin to conduct a strange dance of courtship. Olof insists he doesn't plan to leave his wife, but he doesn't object to this new situation either . . . it's far too much fun.
Ester, on the other hand, is convinced that things will change, that she will change him. But as their relationship continues over repeated summers of distance, and winters of heated meetings in bars, Ester is forced to realize the truth: she has become a mistress.
'There are few people writing about love and longing with such unflinching sharpness and insight as Lena Andersson. She gives feelings and experiences so often dismissed as trivial the attention and gravity they deserve, to brilliant, and often painful, effect' Sophie Mackintosh
'Cutting and honest . . . Ester's situation and feelings are frustrating, complicated and so, so real' Stylist
'A thoughtful and sharp exploration of how our culture views infidelity' Elle Magazine
