The Fidelity Files

Jul 18, 2025 1:35 AM

Author:Jessica Brody

The Fidelity Files

'My mission has been clear from day one. Uncover the truth. Give women a chance to move on with their lives. But not everyone sees this job as a worthy cause...They'd see me as a woman who knowingly flirts with married men and then breaks up relationships. Ruins families. Tears people apart. And that's why I keep it to myself.'

Working under the code name 'Ashlyn', Jennifer Hunter leads a double life. Her friends and family all think she's an investment banker who's too busy to date. In reality, Jennifer is a professional honey-trap, hired by suspicious wives and girlfriends to test the fidelity of the men in their lives. Her job has made her pretty cynical about her own love life. But just as she's ready to swear off men for ever, Jennifer meets sexy, sophisticated Jamie Richards, a man who might just past her fidelity test. However, before she retires her secret agent self forever, she takes on one last assignment - a job which will permanently alter her perceptions of trust, honesty, and love.

Reviews

The Fidelity Files is a gem...utterly believable ...If you want your chick-lit edgier and more unpredictable than the usual fare then this is the book for you

—— News of the World

A smart, funny and sexy debut novel

—— Cosmopolitan

This takes chick-lit to a new place; it's edgy and bold, and unpredictable. Jessica has a very keen eye for human behaviour. Especially male human behaviour.

—— Beth Harbison, author of SHOE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS

Smart, witty, sharp, and engaging, THE FIDELITY FILES is a juicy tale of one woman's quest to make a difference in the world - by ridding it of cheaters one man at a time. Jessica Brody has penned a brilliant debut, and is definitely one to watch!

—— Alyson Noel, author of FLY ME TO THE MOON

The poems gathered here celebrate our tenuous connection to something timeless and sublime. A truly inexhaustible collection . . . to be read again and again

—— Daily Mail

Had me entranced

—— Observer

A wonderful, generous anthology. A life-affirming celebration of the commonplace yet enduringly mysterious creatures we share this world with and the poetry they have inspired

—— Daily Telegraph

It is an admirable book and in its best passages is inspired and haunting

—— Jane Yager , Times Literary Supplement

Generations of women survive, most movingly, in the wreckage left by total war

—— Boyd Tonkin , Independent

Beautifully constructed... Franck has a remarkable ability to capture the nuances of human behaviour,and her subtle depiction of Helene's growing coldness, or "blindness", and the wider blindness of a society heading for disaster, is utterly compelling

—— Independent on Sunday

Read it and weep

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With its intriguing plot and strong characterisation, Julia Franck's novel depicts beautifully both personal and historical tragedies, and gives us a compelling portrait of a remarkable woman in difficult times

—— WBQ

A rich, affecting novel

—— David Evans , Independent on Sunday, Christmas round up

A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty

—— The New York Times

A marvellous elucidation of life ... a story full of craft and full of mystery

—— The New York Times Book Review

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!

—— Lindsey Davis

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—— Kathy Lette

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

—— Arabella Weir

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

—— Hugh Laurie

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—— Douglas Adams

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—— Sebastian Faulks

Sublime comic genius

—— Ben Elton

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—— Stephen Fry

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