Signs of Damage

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It was as if the present and the past were linked: a spiders web, wherein a shock to one strand could make the whole structure shake.

The Kelly familysidyllic holiday in the southofFrance is disturbed when Cass, a thirteen-year-old girl, goes missing.Shes discovered several hours later with no visiblesignsofinjury. Everyone present dismisses the incident as a close brush with tragedy.

Sixteen years later, at a funeral for a memberofthe Kelly family, Cass collapses. The present and the past start to collide as buried secrets come to light and old doubts resurface. What really happened to Cass in the southofFrance And whats wrong with her now

A gripping taleofunravelling memories and moral ambiguities,Signs of Damagewrestles with the difference between understanding other people, and trying to explain them.

Praise for Signs of Damage:

a page-turning book that is hard to put down.The Australian

her best work since Love & Virtue.The Guardian

As withDiana Reid'sdebut Love & Virtue,Signs of Damagedelves into questions of trauma, memory, friendship and what it means to have your story told by someone else. A page-turner that will give book clubs plenty to discuss.Sydney Morning Herald

The third offering from this talented Aussie author is already generating a lot of buzz and for good reason - it's as thrilling as her debut, Love & Virtue.Woman's Day

an engrossing, meticulously crafted drama.Books+Publishing


Praise forLove & Virtue:

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

Loved it Its electrifying.Annabel Crabb

I inhaled it an amazing book.Mia Freedman

Praise forSeeing Other People:

This! Was! So! Good! ... Diana Reid you are in a total league of your own.Zara McDonald,Shameless Podcast

Seeing Other Peoplewill be the book of the summer.PedestrianTV

An extraordinary new voice in Aussie lit.Zo Foster Blake, author of The Wrong Girl and Textbook Romance

Reviews

'Diana Reids third book is an engrossing, meticulously crafted drama that explores memory, trauma, repression and self-preservation, examining how these themes intersect, overlap, are misinterpreted or deliberately distorted to devastating consequences.' * Books+Publishing *
'in the spirit of Signs of Damage, take a seat poolside with a cocktail in hand and let the drama, with a side of social commentary, unfold.' * The Australian *

Author Bio

Diana Reid is theAustralianauthor of the bestselling novels Love & Virtue and Seeing Other People.Her debut, Love & Virtue, won 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. She was also named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist in 2022.Born in Sydney, she is currently based in London.Signs of Damage is her third novel.