{"product_id":"9781761154171","title":"Love \u0026 Virtue","description":"Author: Diana Reid\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761154171\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Ultimo Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Mar 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e Best Young Australian Novelist 2022\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Winner of the ABIA Book of the Year Award\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Winner of the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Winner ABA Booksellers Choice Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Winner of the MUD Literary Prize\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Shortlisted for The \u003ci\u003eReadings \u003c\/i\u003ePrize for New Australian Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Shortlisted for \u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Shortlisted Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Shortlisted ABIA Matt Richell Award New Writer of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e‘set to be one of the year’s most talked about books’ – \u003ci\u003eVogue Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n ‘a great read that will become an Australian classic’\u003c\/b\u003e –\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e‘an absolute cracker, \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e lobs right into the current moment with a clarifying light. I hope EVERYONE reads this book.’ – Helen Garner, bestselling and award winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe First Stone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Spare Room\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e‘one of the best novels I have read this year ... it’s clever, pacy and wonderfully thoughtful. Read it!’ – Zara McDonald, \u003ci\u003eShameless Podcast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAre you a good person, or do you just look like one?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhenever 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.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e But I say it in such a way—so pregnant with misanthropy—that it’s obvious I hate her.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n ‘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 \u003ci\u003eSorrow and Bliss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n ‘\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Brilliant Friend,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e a touchstone for Reid, their spark feels charged, given to exploding.’ – \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n ‘\u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Virtue \u003c\/i\u003eis an accomplished novel – by turns funny and furious, and full of the plangent longing and confusion of early adulthood.’ - \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n ‘It is not enough to say \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e heralds the arrival of a new literary talent: Reid is intensely incisive and brilliant.’ – Sarah Schmidt, author of \u003ci\u003eSee What I Have Done\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n ‘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 \u003ci\u003eKokomo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A fierce new voice at just the right moment, shining a light on consent and class with clarity and grace.’ – Inga Simpson, author of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Trees Were\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnderstory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46795804311710,"sku":"TLD-9781761154171","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781761154171.jpg?v=1778027872","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781761154171","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}