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Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2022
Winner MUD Literary Prize
Shortlisted ABA Booksellers Choice Award for Fiction
Shortlisted Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction
Longlisted ABIA Award for Literary Fiction
Longlisted ABIA Matt Richell Award New Writer of the Year
Sex. Power. Consent.
Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way—so pregnant with misanthropy that it’s obvious I hate her.
Michaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other 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 O-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.
About the Author
Diana Reid is a Sydney-based writer, who graduated from the University of Sydney last year with a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons Philosophy)/Laws. In January 2020, her career in theatre was off to a promising start: the musical she co-wrote and produced, 1984! The Musical!, debuted and she was set to direct and write theatre performances around the country and over to the Edinburgh Fringe. When COVID-19 saw the cancellation of global theatre, she decided she'd spend her time in shutdown writing a manuscript. Love & Virtue , her debut novel, was shortlisted for the Indie Awards and the ABA Booksellers Choice Award, longlisted for two ABIA Awards and was the winner of the 2022 MUD Literary Prize.
Diana is also a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist for 2022. Her second novel, Seeing Other People, will publish in October 2022.
Winner MUD Literary Prize
Shortlisted ABA Booksellers Choice Award for Fiction
Shortlisted Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction
Longlisted ABIA Award for Literary Fiction
Longlisted ABIA Matt Richell Award New Writer of the Year
Sex. Power. Consent.
Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way—so pregnant with misanthropy that it’s obvious I hate her.
Michaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other 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 O-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.
About the Author
Diana Reid is a Sydney-based writer, who graduated from the University of Sydney last year with a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons Philosophy)/Laws. In January 2020, her career in theatre was off to a promising start: the musical she co-wrote and produced, 1984! The Musical!, debuted and she was set to direct and write theatre performances around the country and over to the Edinburgh Fringe. When COVID-19 saw the cancellation of global theatre, she decided she'd spend her time in shutdown writing a manuscript. Love & Virtue , her debut novel, was shortlisted for the Indie Awards and the ABA Booksellers Choice Award, longlisted for two ABIA Awards and was the winner of the 2022 MUD Literary Prize.
Diana is also a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist for 2022. Her second novel, Seeing Other People, will publish in October 2022.
Industry Reviews
‘an absolute cracker, Love & Virtue lobs right into the current moment with a clarifying light. I hope EVERYONE reads this book.’
ISBN: 9781761150470
ISBN-10: 1761150472
Published: 6th July 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 320
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Ultimo Press
Country of Publication: AU
Edition Number: 2
Dimensions (cm): 20 x 13.5 x 2
Weight (kg): 0.31
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