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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

Diana Reid has such a way with language. Mamamia

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

Which comes firstthose you love, or those you want?

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.

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