Join us on Monday October 24th for an in conversation event with celebrated author Diana Reid to launch her highly-anticipated new book Seeing Other People. Our co-director Olivia will sit down with Diana to chat about the book and her career and writing process, with an opportunity for questions from the audience.
Reid’s first 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 named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist in 2022.
Love & Virtue was also a much loved and discussed book at our very own book club.
Tickets are $30 and include wine, non-alcoholic drinks and light snacks. There will be an opportunity to purchase books and have them signed on the night thanks to our friends at The Book Bird, who are also currently offering a special 10% discount for books that are pre-ordered for the event.
About the book:
‘This! Was! So! Good! ... Diana Reid you are in a total league of your own.’ — Zara McDonald, Shameless Podcast
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.