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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- From the award-winning author of Love and Virtue ($22.99) comes an absorbing and reflective novel centred around two sisters in their 20s living in post-lockdown Sydney. Reid expertly captures the atmosphere of Sydney's Inner West and the feeling of hot, slow summers in Australia. Her writing is sharp, observant and wry - she writes with humour, but also with a sense of gravity about the complexities of navigating familial and romantic relationships. Reid focuses on the uncertainty and peculiarity of redefining a sibling relationship as adults out of the childhood family dynamic. Her characters are real and complicated, the situations they find themselves in messy. This is a stunning and thought-provoking summer read. Hannah
Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2022
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.
'This! Was! So! Good! ... Diana Reid you are in a total league of your own.' - Zara McDonald, Shameless Podcast
'An extraordinary new voice in Aussie lit.' - Zoe Foster Blake
'Reid is a young author to watch.' - Marie Claire
'This charming, insightful and clever follow-up to Love and Virtue is an immensely readable novel that explores the bonds of family, friendship and principle.' - Books + Publishing
Praise for Love and Virtue:
'Loved it... It's electrifying!' - Annabel Crabb
'A great read that will become an Australian classic' - Sydney Morning Herald
'An absolute cracker, Love and Virtue lobs right into the current moment with a clarifying light. I hope EVERYONE reads this book.' - Helen Garner, bestselling and award winning author of The First Stone and The Spare Room
'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
'Love and Virtue is an accomplished novel - by turns funny and furious, and full of the plangent longing and confusion of early adulthood.' - The Saturday Paper
'It's not enough to say Love and Virtue heralds the arrival of a new literary talent: Reid is intensely incisive and brilliant.' - Sarah Schmidt, author of See What I Have Done and Blue Hour
'Reid's prose interrogates everything we think we know about love. Heartfelt and unputdownable, this is a remarkably self-assured debut.' - Victoria Hannan, author of Kokomo and Marshmallow
'A fierce new voice at just the right moment, shining a light on consent and class with clarity and grace.' - Inga Simpson, author of Where the Trees Were and Understory
Diana Reid is a Sydney-based writer. Her debut novel, Love & Virtue, was an Australian bestseller and winner of the ABIA Book of the Year Award, the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award, the ABA Booksellers' Choice Fiction Book of the Year Award, and the MUD Literary Prize. Love & Virtue was also shortlisted for the Indie Debut Fiction Award, the ABIA Matt Richell New Writer Award, and Highly Commended at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Diana was also named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist in 2022. Seeing Other People is her second novel.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- From the award-winning author of Love and Virtue ($22.99) comes an absorbing and reflective novel centred around two sisters in their 20s living in post-lockdown Sydney. Reid expertly captures the atmosphere of Sydney's Inner West and the feeling of hot, slow summers in Australia. Her writing is sharp, observant and wry - she writes with humour, but also with a sense of gravity about the complexities of navigating familial and romantic relationships. Reid focuses on the uncertainty and peculiarity of redefining a sibling relationship as adults out of the childhood family dynamic. Her characters are real and complicated, the situations they find themselves in messy. This is a stunning and thought-provoking summer read. Hannah
'This! Was! So! Good! ... Diana Reid you are in a total league of your own.' -- Zara McDonald * Shameless Podcast * 'An extraordinary new voice in Aussie lit.' -- Zoe Foster Blake 'Reid is a young author to watch.' * Marie Claire * 'The prose sparkles on the page, as effervescent and drinkable as a glass of Prosecco on a warm summer's evening.' * The Australian * 'Diana Reid will be called the new Sally Rooney' -- Meg Mason 'Seeing Other People is another punchy and well-observed novel.' * The Guardian * 'Diana Reid's close third-person narration captures every gesture and thought, creating a strong sense of interiority for all her characters. She effortlessly documents the process of watching, the awareness of being watched, and the split-second analysis of social interactions. Like a more bubbly Sally Rooney, Reid's work is full of interactions and interconnections, sex and conversations, friends and family. Part romance, part social commentary and part family saga, Seeing Other People questions what we owe each other and what we owe ourselves.' * Books + Publishing * 'written in superb prose, this is the ultimate contemporary dramedy' * InStyle * 'a story bathed in sisterhood and the oft complicated relationship sisters are forced to navigate.' * Russh * 'if you're heading to the beach and need a light, funny read, this book will deliver that for you.' * The Canberra Times * 'Seeing Other People will be the book of the summer.' * PedestrianTV * 'The snark is delicious, like the bright, citric fizz of popping candy. It's a welcome reprieve from the novels of middle-class malaise that have been so painfully fashionable of late' * Sydney Morning Herald *
