- Published: 16 August 2022
- ISBN: 9780143779087
- Imprint: Vintage Australia
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $32.99
Her Fidelity















- Published: 16 August 2022
- ISBN: 9780143779087
- Imprint: Vintage Australia
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $32.99
Katharine Pollock is the voice that we have been waiting for. Forensically sharp and ridiculously funny. Step aside New York. Pollock brings you Brisbane in all its glory.
Krissy Kneen
Funny and joyous: the secret history of record shop girls.
Susan Johnson
An affecting portrait of people we might encounter often but know next to nothing about. Brimming with heart and humour, Her Fidelity tells us something about how to be and how not to be. Pollock’s writing is rich and relatable. It snapshots contemporary Australian society with precision and awareness. I found myself caring for the characters in the story as though they were my friends.
George Haddad
Like a perfect pop song you can't resist dancing to, Her Fidelity takes you by the hand and heart as it honours the life-defining powers of music and friendship. By turning the tables on the boys-club of record stores, Pollock spins a hilariously acute tale of self-becoming and a feminist future. Fresh and unflinching, it is a sharp debut: immensely fun, deftly wise, and destined for high rotation.
Vanessa Berry
An ode to friendship, community and where we belong, set to a dynamic soundtrack that manages to blend nostalgia with the here and now.
Melina Marchetta
Kathy is a droll slacker of a narrator, peppering her first-person narration with, as she calls it herself, ‘disingenuously witty repartee’. Her voice is at times ironic and sarcastic but it can also be funny and light. A riot grrl High Fidelity, this feminist-slanted, self-aware coming-of-age story is a cross between Nick Hornby and Meg Bignell.
Fay Helfenbaum, Weekly Book Newsletter
I laughed out loud 5 times within the first 2 pages of Her Fidelity. As the title suggests the book is a take on the Nick Hornby classic High Fidelity but with a female perspective. That’s the bleedin’ obvious! Before you try to write this off as an imitation, consider the amount of classics that have been a take on another classic; West Side Story – Romeo and Juliet, 7 samurai – the Magnificent 7. It is often the recontextualization that makes it salient. In this case us Y chromosome types get to have a good therapeutic laugh at ourselves while we see a perspective that should be bleedin’ obvious but for some reason isn’t.
Kim Salmon