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Winner of the ABIA Book of the Year Award
Winner of the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction of the Year
Winner ABA Booksellers Choice Award for Fiction
Winner of the MUD Literary Prize
Shortlisted for The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Fiction
Shortlisted Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction
Shortlisted 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, bestselling and award winning author of The First Stone and The Spare Room
'one of the best novels I have read this year ... it's clever, pacy and wonderfully thoughtful. Read it!' – Zara McDonald, Shameless Podcast
Are you a good person, or do you just look like one?
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.
Praise for Love & Virtue
'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 & 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.' – Sydney Morning Herald
'Love & Virtue is an accomplished novel – by turns funny and furious, and full of the plangent longing and confusion of early adulthood.' - The Saturday Paper
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- ISBN: 9781761150289
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- ISBN: 9781761150289
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