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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Diana Reid's debut novel centres on the friendship between two first-year university students Eve and Michaela, as they navigate life on campus at a prestigious Sydney University. Reid explores themes of privilege, wealth, entitlement, class and toxic masculinity. Reid also expertly tackles topics like feminism, consent and unequal power dynamics in relationships in a very thought provoking way. I found Reid's characters strikinly real and intruiging and loved reading about local Sydney places! A wonderful, powerful book! Hannah Ebbings
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
'set to be one of the year's most talked about books' - Vogue Australia
'a great read that will become an Australian classic' - Sydney Morning Herald
'an absolute cracker, Love & Virtue lobs right into the current moment with a clarifying light. I hope EVERYONE reads this book.' * Helen Garner * 'I have been chewing on this book for days now. Compelling reading. So well written. Complex. I keep turning it over in my mind and I want to talk about it!' * Hannah Kent * 'An extraordinary new voice in Aussie lit.' * Zoe Foster Blake * 'Loved it...It's electrifying' * Annabel Crabb * 'Love and Virtue is an accomplished novel - by turns funny and furious, and full of the plangent longing and confusion of early adulthood.' -- Fiona Wright * The Saturday Paper * 'Love & Virtue is a formidable debut novel. The writing is punchy and clever, with characters so deeply drawn that they feel like friends and enemies from a former life.' -- Zoya Patel * The Guardian Australia * 'I inhaled it...an amazing book' * Mia Freedman * 'Reid writes with ferocity and intelligence, and this novel demands attention and commands respect.' -- Anna Carew-Reid * Sunday Times Magazine * 'Unputdownable, her rich and resplendent detail distils the Australian campus experience with cutting insight, ultimately leading the audience to contemplate its trenchant central question: are you a good person, or do you just look like one?' -- Noah Vaz * Law Society Journal * 'Fans of Sally Rooney will gravitate to this compelling read that centres on feminism, power and sex in the lives of Australian university students.' -- Maggie Zhou * Refinery 29 Australia * 'Reid is a young author to watch.' * Marie Claire * 'Love and Virtue captures the near-erotic thrill of being a young woman, alone and adrift, who finds, in another young woman, an intellectual equal ... Like Elena and Lila in Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend, a touchstone for Reid, their spark feels charged, given to exploding.' -- Neha Kale * Sydney Morning Herald * 'wonderfully readable prose, offering a nuanced and often very funny portrait of privilege and betrayal that probes complex questions about consent, trust and what it means to be a truly good person.' -- Gemma Nisbet * The West Australian * 'The prose crackles fiercely, luring readers in with phrases to mull over and taste before devouring the next delicious sentence.' -- Annabel Harz * Artshub *
