{"product_id":"love-and-virtue","title":"Love and Virtue","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e Best Young Australian Novelist \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the ABIA Book of the Year Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction of the Year\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner ABA Booksellers Choice Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the MUD Literary Prize\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted for The \u003ci\u003eReadings\u003c\/i\u003e Prize for New Australian Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted for \u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted ABIA Matt Richell Award New Writer of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''set to be one of the year''s most talked about books'' - \u003ci\u003eVogue Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ''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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSex. Power. Consent.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \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\u003eBut 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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Initially bonded by their wit and sharp eye for the colleges'' mix of material wealth and moral poverty, Michaela and Eve soon discover how fragile friendship is, and how capable of betrayal they both are.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWritten 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Praise for \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ''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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ''\u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Virtue\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\u003eMy Brilliant Friend,\u003c\/i\u003e a touchstone for Reid, their spark feels charged, given to exploding.'' - \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ''\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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ''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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ''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":"Ultimo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48662771073273,"sku":"9781761150470","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/4535\/6025\/files\/805853482815.jpg?v=1783990744","url":"https:\/\/www.atticusbooksandart.com.au\/products\/love-and-virtue","provider":"Atticus Bookshop Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}