Diana Reid Diana Reid i(20598856 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Signs of Damage Diana Reid , Ultimo : Ultimo Press , 2025 28857829 2025 single work novel

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

'The Kelly family's idyllic holiday in the South of France is disturbed when Cass, a thirteen-year-old girl, goes missing. She's discovered several hours later with no visible signs of injury. Everyone present dismisses the incident as a close brush with tragedy. 
 
'Sixteen years later, at a funeral for a member of the 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 South of France? And what's wrong with her now?' (Publication summary) 

1 4 y separately published work icon Seeing Other People Diana Reid , Ultimo : Ultimo Press , 2022 24409087 2022 single work novel

'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.

'Seeing Other People is the darkly funny story of two very different sisters, and the summer that stretches their relationship almost to breaking point. ' (Publication summary)

1 Love & Virtue : An Extract Diana Reid , 2021 extract novel (Love and Virtue)
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2021;
1 7 y separately published work icon Love and Virtue Diana Reid , Ultimo : Ultimo Press , 2021 21618821 2021 single work novel

'"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 colleges’ 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.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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