Love & Virtue

'The new Sally Rooney - you're certain of it by the end of page one' Meg Mason

Cover Art for 9781398706422, Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
ISBN: 9781398706422
Publisher: Trapeze
Published: 7 July, 2022
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Links Hachette
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Genre:Fiction

Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporary narrative that is fiercely authentic 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: esquo;People are infinitely complex.wsquo; But I say it in such a wayedash;so pregnant with misanthropy dash;that it squo;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 pdash; the other uncertain and eager-to-please. But something happens one night in O-week ddash; 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 collegestsquo; mix of material wealth and moral poverty, Michaela and Eve soon discover how fragile friendship is, and how capable of betrayal they both are. Written with a strikingly contemporary voice that is both wickedly clever and incisive, issues of consent, class and institutional privilege, and feminism become provocations for enduring philosophical questions we face today. Praise for Love & Virtue isquo;Diana Reid will be called the new Sally Rooney wdash; youhsquo;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 edash; or hope to be.lsquo; idash; Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss lsquo;It is not enough to say Love & Virtue heralds the arrival of a new literary talent: Reid is intensely incisive and brilliant.csquo; .dash; Sarah Schmidt, author of See What I Have Done squo;Reidusquo;s prose interrogates everything we think we know about love. Heartfelt and unputdownable, this is a remarkably self-assured debut.lsquo; gdash; Victoria Hannan, author of Kokomo?squo;A fierce new voice at just the right moment, shining a light on consent and class with clarity and grace.?squo; ?dash; Inga Simpson, author of Where the Trees Were and Understory ?

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