Love & Virtue by Diana Reid - Book
Sex. Power. Consent.
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: âPeople are infinitely complex.â But I say it in such a way - so pregnant with misanthropy - that itâs 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.
Initially bonded by their wit and sharp eye for the collegesâ mix of material wealth and moral poverty, Michaela and Eve soon discover how fragile friendship is, and how capable of betrayal they both are.
- Number of Pages: 320 pages
- Book Cover: Paperback
- Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2022
- Winner MUD Literary Prize
- Shortlisted ABA Booksellers Choice Award for Fiction
- Shortlisted Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction
- Longlisted ABIA Award for Literary Fiction
- Longlisted ABIA Matt Richell Award New Writer of the Year
