Love & Virtue - Diana Reid

Category: Adults, General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Australia Coming of Age

Written by Diana Reid
Read by Emma Leonard
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘people are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way - so pregnant with misanthropy - that it’s obvious I hate her.

Michaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other their first year at a residential college at university, where they live in adjacent rooms. They could not be more different: one, assured and popular - the other, uncertain and eager to please. But something happens one night in O-week - a drunken encounter, a foggy memory that will force them to confront the realities of consent and wrestle with the dynamics of power.

Initially bonded by their wit and sharp eye for the college’s mix of material wealth and moral poverty, Michaela and Eve soon discover how fragile friendship is, and how capable of betrayal they both are.

Written with a strikingly contemporary voice that is both wickedly clever and incisive, issues of consent, class and institutional privilege and feminism become provocations for enduring philosophical questions we face today.

Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
Release date: 09-29-21