Seeing Other People
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
From the author of Love & Virtue, Seeing Other People is the darkly funny story of two very different sisters, and the summer that stretches their relationship almost to breaking point.
Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat or sweat, but with that intense, body-defining self-consciousness—that sense of being watched. She lowered her eyes from Eleanor’s loving gaze. Her throat taut with tears, she swallowed. ‘You’re a good sister, Eleanor.’
‘Don’t say that.’
After two years of lockdowns, there’s change in the air. Eleanor has just broken up with her boyfriend, Charlie’s career as an actress is starting up again. They’re finally ready to pursue their dreams—relationships, career, family—if 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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In post-lockdown Sydney, a talented pair of twenty-something sisters find themselves suddenly at odds as they try to define themselves all over again. Eleanor is fresh off a stinging split from her unfaithful boyfriend, and Charlie is looking to restart her acting career. When they’re both drawn to the same potential lover, long-standing alliances and treacheries will be tested and revisited in painful ways. Diana Reid’s follow-up to Love & Virtue has earned positive comparisons to Sally Rooney’s novels, but Reid brandishes subtle generational insights that are all her own. Narrated with the perfect degree of knowing wryness by Australian actor Emma Leonard, Seeing Other People finds both humour and hurt in the self-centred jockeying of its close-knit protagonists.
