Seeing Other People by Diana Reid
Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2022
SHORTLISTED for the INDIE AWARD for BEST FICTION
SHORTLISTED for the ABIA for Literary Fiction
LONGLISTED for the BookPeople Book of the Year for Fiction
This! Was! So! Good! ... Diana Reid you are in a total league of your own. - Zara McDonald, Shameless Podcast
Seeing Other People will be the book of the summer. - PedestrianTV
An extraordinary new voice in Aussie lit. Zoe Foster Blake
a captivating read that feels made for racing through while lying on the beach. Vogue Australia
Charlies skin was stinging. Not with heat or sweat, but with that intense, body-defining self-consciousnessthat sense of being watched. She lowered her eyes from Eleanors loving gaze.Her throat taut with tears, she swallowed.Youre a good sister, Eleanor.
Dont say that.
After two years of lockdowns, theres change in the air. Eleanor has just broken up with her boyfriend, Charlies career as an actress is starting up again. Theyre finally ready to pursue their dreamsrelationships, career, familyif 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 Peopleis the darkly funny story of two very different sisters, and the summer that stretches their relationship almost to breaking point.
PRAISE FOR SEEING OTHER PEOPLE:
a great summer read. - The Guardian
The prose sparkles on the page, as effervescent and drinkable as a glass of prosecco on a warm summer's evening. - The Australian
We absolutely adored this hotly-anticipated novel - The Shameless Bookclub
If you tore throughLove & Virtuelast year, you'll want to add Diana Reid's second novel to the top of your reading bucket list.- Marie Claire
I enjoyed this funny, charming and enormously readable novel a great deal, in large part due to the wit and authenticity with which Reid represents her characters and their world. - The West Australian
Reid hasnt lost her skewering wit. - Sydney Morning Herald
'a compulsive read - Primer
'funny and engaging - ArtsHub
Reid's witty and insightful social observation is something to relish - ABC Radio National, The Bookshelf
There is a genuine warmth as well as capacious intelligence and sly humour to Reids writing, and a dynamic energy to the novel thats always compelling - The Guardian
SHORTLISTED for the INDIE AWARD for BEST FICTION
SHORTLISTED for the ABIA for Literary Fiction
LONGLISTED for the BookPeople Book of the Year for Fiction
This! Was! So! Good! ... Diana Reid you are in a total league of your own. - Zara McDonald, Shameless Podcast
Seeing Other People will be the book of the summer. - PedestrianTV
An extraordinary new voice in Aussie lit. Zoe Foster Blake
a captivating read that feels made for racing through while lying on the beach. Vogue Australia
Charlies skin was stinging. Not with heat or sweat, but with that intense, body-defining self-consciousnessthat sense of being watched. She lowered her eyes from Eleanors loving gaze.Her throat taut with tears, she swallowed.Youre a good sister, Eleanor.
Dont say that.
After two years of lockdowns, theres change in the air. Eleanor has just broken up with her boyfriend, Charlies career as an actress is starting up again. Theyre finally ready to pursue their dreamsrelationships, career, familyif 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 Peopleis the darkly funny story of two very different sisters, and the summer that stretches their relationship almost to breaking point.
PRAISE FOR SEEING OTHER PEOPLE:
a great summer read. - The Guardian
The prose sparkles on the page, as effervescent and drinkable as a glass of prosecco on a warm summer's evening. - The Australian
We absolutely adored this hotly-anticipated novel - The Shameless Bookclub
If you tore throughLove & Virtuelast year, you'll want to add Diana Reid's second novel to the top of your reading bucket list.- Marie Claire
I enjoyed this funny, charming and enormously readable novel a great deal, in large part due to the wit and authenticity with which Reid represents her characters and their world. - The West Australian
Reid hasnt lost her skewering wit. - Sydney Morning Herald
'a compulsive read - Primer
'funny and engaging - ArtsHub
Reid's witty and insightful social observation is something to relish - ABC Radio National, The Bookshelf
There is a genuine warmth as well as capacious intelligence and sly humour to Reids writing, and a dynamic energy to the novel thats always compelling - The Guardian