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  • Published: 25 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780143572732
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99

Adultery




A novel about discovering who you are, where you're going, and what matters to you most.

Have you ever looked at your life and wondered, 'Is this it?'

Linda knows she's lucky.

Yet every morning when she opens her eyes to a so-called new day, she feels like closing them again.

Her friends recommend medication.

But Linda wants to feel more, not less.

And so she embarks on an adventure as unexpected as it is daring, and which reawakens a side of her that she – respectable wife, loving mother, ambitious journalist – thought had disappeared.

Even she can't predict what will happen next . . .

A novel about discovering who you are, where you're going, and what matters to you most.

'It'll have you asking what's really important in life.' New Idea

'Paulo Coelho's books have had a life-enhancing impact on millions of people.' The Times (UK)

  • Published: 25 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780143572732
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho’s life remains the primary source of inspiration for his books. He has flirted with death, escaped madness, dallied with drugs, withstood torture, experimented with magic and alchemy, studied philosophy and religion, read voraciously, lost and recovered his faith, and experienced the pain and pleasure of love. In searching for his own place in the world, he discovered answers for the challenges that everyone faces. He believes that, within ourselves, we have the necessary strength to find our own destiny.


His first novel, THE ALCHEMIST, has now sold more than 85 million copies and has been cited as an inspiration by people as diverse as Malala Yousafzai and Pharrell Williams.


Paulo Coelho’s books have sold more than 225 million copies worldwide and he is the most translated living author. He has won 115 international prizes and awards and in 2007 was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace.

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Praise for Adultery

Adultery perfectly illustrates the faint line between madness and insanity, happiness and unhappiness as well as the eternal search for our own "personal legend"

Daily Express
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