Seeing Other People

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Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2022
SHORTLISTED for the INDIE AWARD for BEST 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. Zo 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 selfishnessIn 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

This charming, insightful and clever follow-up toLove & Virtueis an immensely readable novel that explores the bonds of family, friendship and principle. - Books + Publishing

a story bathed in sisterhood and the oft complicated relationship sisters are forced to navigate. - Russh

if youre heading to the beach and need a light, funny read, this book will deliver that for you.- The Canberra Times

written in superb prose, this is the ultimate contemporary dramedy - InStyle

I love Diana Reids writing and Seeing Other People hit the mark once again. - Women's Agenda

PRAISE FOR LOVE & VIRTUE:

Loved itIts electrifying Annabel Crabb

a great read that will become an Australian classicSydney Morning Herald

an absolute cracker,Love & Virtuelobs right into the current moment with a clarifying light. I hope EVERYONE reads this book. Helen Garner, bestselling and award winning author ofThe First StoneandThe Spare Room

Diana Reid will be called the new Sally Rooney youre 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 Sorrow and Bliss

Love & Virtueis an accomplished novel by turns funny and furious, and full of the plangent longing and confusion of early adulthood. - The Saturday Paper

It is not enough to say Love & Virtue heralds the arrival of a new literary talent: Reid is intensely incisive and brilliant. Sarah Schmidt, author of See What I Have Doneand Blue Hour

Reids prose interrogates everything we think we know about love. Heartfelt and unputdownable, this is a remarkably self-assured debut. Victoria Hannan, author of Kokomo and Marshmallow

A fierce new voice at just the right moment, shining a light on consent and class with clarity and grace. Inga Simpson, author ofWhere the Trees WereandUnderstory

Reviews

This! Was! So! Good! ... Diana Reid you are in a total league of your own. -- Zara McDonald * Shameless Podcast *
An extraordinary new voice in Aussie lit. -- Zo Foster Blake
Reid is a young author to watch. * Marie Claire *
The prose sparkles on the page, as effervescent and drinkable as a glass of Prosecco on a warm summer's evening. * The Australian *
Diana Reid will be called the new Sally Rooney -- Meg Mason
Seeing Other People is another punchy and well-observed novel. * The Guardian *
Diana Reids close third-person narration captures every gesture and thought, creating a strong sense of interiority for all her characters. She effortlessly documents the process of watching, the awareness of being watched, and the split-second analysis of social interactions. Like a more bubbly Sally Rooney, Reids work is full of interactions and interconnections, sex and conversations, friends and family. Part romance, part social commentary and part family saga,Seeing Other Peoplequestions what we owe each other and what we owe ourselves. * Books + Publishing *
written in superb prose, this is the ultimate contemporary dramedy
* InStyle *
a story bathed in sisterhood and the oft complicated relationship sisters are forced to navigate. * Russh *
if youre heading to the beach and need a light, funny read, this book will deliver that for you. * The Canberra Times *
Seeing Other People will be the book of the summer. * PedestrianTV *
The snark is delicious, like the bright, citric fizz of popping candy. Its a welcome reprieve from the novels of middle-class malaise that have been so painfully fashionable of late * Sydney Morning Herald *
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 *
funny and engaging * ArtsHub *
Reid's witty and insightful social observation is something to relish * ABC Radio National, The Bookshelf *
We absolutely adored this hotly-anticipated novel * The Shameless Bookclub *
Snappy dialogue, sharp insights, interesting moral dilemmas and humour. * Sydney Morning Herald *
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 *

Author Bio

Diana Reid is a Sydney-based writer. Her debut novel,Love & Virtue, was an Australian bestseller and winner of the ABIA Book of the Year Award, the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award, the ABA Booksellers' Choice Fiction Book of the Year Award, and the MUD Literary Prize. Love & Virtue was also shortlisted for the Indie Debut Fiction Award, the ABIA Matt Richell New Writer Award, and Highly Commended at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Diana was also named aSydney Morning HeraldBest Young Novelist in 2022.Seeing Other Peopleis her second novel.