Kate Legge

And I spoke to my then literary agent, Mary Kinane.

She said, no, that's a very bad idea.

Don't do it.

And so I set it aside and didn't really think about it until the second episode of Infidelity.

And then I started to think.

about what had happened in his family and to look back at a seam of infidelity that ran from his grandmother through his father's and mother's marriage and then into ours.

And I've always been interested in the idea of nurture and nature and generational traits that have passed on.

almost like a baton or a curse from one to the next.

And that was when I decided that I would start looking at it.

And I'd come across some research in 2017, which showed that they'd done three separate studies of infidelity.

And they found that offspring who'd been exposed to infidelity in their family of origin was significantly more likely to repeat that behaviour.

It was a very small study.

They recommended further work, but I was fascinated by that.

So that suggests two things.

There might be some, if it's being repeated generationally, that suggests possibly there might be some genetic factor at play or some genetic predisposition or maybe modelling behaviour.

Yeah, modelling behaviour.

That's what they suggested.

It leaves a door, a jar in your mind.

There's an exit strategy.

Yeah.