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Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2022
SHORTLISTED for the INDIE AWARD for BEST FICTION SHORTLISTED for
the ABIA for Literary Fiction LONGLISTED for the BookPeople Book of
the Year for Fiction ‘This! Was! So! Good! ... Diana Reid
you are in a total league of your own.’ - Zara McDonald,
Shameless Podcast ‘Seeing Other People will be the book of the
summer.’ - PedestrianTV ‘An extraordinary new voice in Aussie
lit.’ ― Zoë Foster Blake ‘a captivating read that
feels made for racing through while lying on the beach.’
― Vogue Australia Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with
heat or sweat, but with that intense, body-defining
self-consciousness—that sense of being watched. She lowered her
eyes from Eleanor’s loving gaze. Her throat taut with
tears, she swallowed. ‘You’re a good sister, Eleanor.’
‘Don’t say that.’ After two years of lockdowns, there’s
change in the air. Eleanor has just broken up with her boyfriend,
Charlie’s career as an actress is starting up again. They’re
finally ready to pursue their dreams—relationships, career,
family—if only they can work out what it is they really want.
When principles and desires clash, Eleanor and Charlie are forced
to ask: where is the line between self-love and
selfishness? In all their confusion, mistakes will be made
and lies will be told as they reckon with the limits of their own
self-awareness. Seeing Other People is the darkly funny story
of two very different sisters, and the summer that stretches their
relationship almost to breaking point. PRAISE FOR SEEING
OTHER PEOPLE: ‘a great summer read.’ - The Guardian ‘The
prose sparkles on the page, as effervescent and drinkable as a
glass of prosecco on a warm summer's evening.’ - The Australian
‘We absolutely adored this hotly-anticipated novel’ - The
Shameless Bookclub ‘If you tore through Love &
Virtue last year, you'll want to add Diana Reid's second
novel to the top of your reading bucket list.’ - Marie
Claire ‘I enjoyed this funny, charming and enormously readable
novel a great deal, in large part due to the wit and authenticity
with which Reid represents her characters and their world.’ - The
West Australian ‘Reid hasn’t lost her skewering wit.’ -
Sydney Morning Herald 'a compulsive read’ - Primer 'funny and
engaging’ - ArtsHub ‘Reid's witty and insightful social
observation is something to relish’ - ABC Radio National, The
Bookshelf ‘There is a genuine warmth as well as capacious
intelligence and sly humour to Reid’s writing, and a dynamic
energy to the novel that’s always compelling’ - The Guardian
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'Reid is the talent to whom every smart young novelist who follows
her will be compared - or hope to be.' - Meg Mason Michaela and Eve
are two bright, bold women who befriend each other in their first
year at a residential college at university, where they live in
adjacent rooms. They could not be more different; one assured and
popular - the other uncertain and eager-to-please. But something
happens one night in Orientation week - a drunken encounter, a
foggy memory that will force them to confront the realities of
consent and wrestle with the dynamics of power. Initially bonded by
their wit and sharp eye for the colleges' mix of material wealth
and moral poverty, Michaela and Eve soon discover how fragile
friendship is, and how capable of betrayal they both are. Written
with a strikingly contemporary voice that is both wickedly clever
and incisive, Love & Virtue explores issues of consent,
feminism, class, and institutional privilege, and engages with
enduring philosophical questions we face today. FOR FANS OF SALLY
ROONEY'S CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS AND ANNA HOPE'S EXPECTATION
When difficult days come rolling in, it is the nature of human
beings to turn to the things that keep us afloat. Sometimes,
they're small, so dismissible that to put weight on them seems a
fool's errand: the smell of baking bread; the joy you feel when,
finally, your home garden begins to sprout; the moments we don't
appreciate when life is going right, only when it's going wrong.
But it is these simple pleasures that make us who we are. In a
world of chaos, complications and controversy, it is these thoughts
that calm, cultivate and connect. These pages contain the scribbles
of pleasure, a look into the simplest of joys, the wildest of
passions, found in the moments in between.
"Diana Reid will be called the new Sally Rooney – you’re
certain of it by the end of page one. By the end of this real, raw
and startling novel, you know Reid is the talent to whom every
smart young novelist who follows her will be compared – or hope
to be." – Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss Charlie’s skin
was stinging. Not with heat or sweat, but with that intense,
body-defining self-consciousness—that sense of being watched. She
lowered her eyes from Eleanor’s loving gaze. Her throat taut with
tears, she swallowed. ‘You’re a good sister, Eleanor.’
‘Don’t say that.’ After two years of lockdowns, there’s
change in the air. Eleanor has just broken up with her boyfriend,
Charlie’s career as an actress is starting up again. They’re
finally ready to pursue their dreams—relationships, career,
family—if only they can work out what it is they really want.
When principles and desires clash, Eleanor and Charlie are forced
to ask: where is the line between self-love and selfishness? In all
their confusion, mistakes will be made and lies will be told as
they reckon with the limits of their own self-awareness. Seeing
Other People is the darkly funny story of two very different
sisters, and the summer that stretches their relationship almost to
breaking point.
'Reid is the talent to whom every smart young novelist who follows
her will be compared - or hope to be.' - Meg Mason Michaela and Eve
are two bright, bold women who befriend each other in their first
year at a residential college at university, where they live in
adjacent rooms. They could not be more different; one assured and
popular - the other uncertain and eager-to-please. But something
happens one night in Orientation week - a drunken encounter, a
foggy memory that will force them to confront the realities of
consent and wrestle with the dynamics of power. Initially bonded by
their wit and sharp eye for the colleges' mix of material wealth
and moral poverty, Michaela and Eve soon discover how fragile
friendship is, and how capable of betrayal they both are. Written
with a strikingly contemporary voice that is both wickedly clever
and incisive, Love & Virtue explores issues of consent,
feminism, class, and institutional privilege, and engages with
enduring philosophical questions we face today. FOR FANS OF SALLY
ROONEY'S CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS AND ANNA HOPE'S EXPECTATION
READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH LOVE & ViRTUE 'Simply amazing!!! I
loved this book' ***** Reader review 'This is a book I will be
thinking about for days later, one that I will talk about to anyone
who will listen, flicking back through dog eared pages &
reading my favourite passages out loud'' ***** 'I cannot fault this
book. I need everyone to read this book. I am OBSESSED with this
book' *****
'Reid is the talent to whom every smart young novelist who follows
her will be compared - or hope to be.' - Meg Mason Michaela and Eve
are two bright, bold women who befriend each other in their first
year at a residential college at university, where they live in
adjacent rooms. They could not be more different; one assured and
popular - the other uncertain and eager-to-please. But something
happens one night in Orientation week - a drunken encounter, a
foggy memory that will force them to confront the realities of
consent and wrestle with the dynamics of power. Initially bonded by
their wit and sharp eye for the colleges' mix of material wealth
and moral poverty, Michaela and Eve soon discover how fragile
friendship is, and how capable of betrayal they both are. Written
with a strikingly contemporary voice that is both wickedly clever
and incisive, Love & Virtue explores issues of consent,
feminism, class, and institutional privilege, and engages with
enduring philosophical questions we face today. FOR FANS OF SALLY
ROONEY'S CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS AND ANNA HOPE'S EXPECTATION
READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH LOVE & ViRTUE 'Simply amazing!!! I
loved this book' ***** Reader review 'This is a book I will be
thinking about for days later, one that I will talk about to anyone
who will listen, flicking back through dog eared pages &
reading my favourite passages out loud'' ***** 'I cannot fault this
book. I need everyone to read this book. I am OBSESSED with this
book' *****
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