‘Unflinching’ debut written ‘for something to do’ during lockdown wins top book prize
Diana Reid's Love & Virtue wins book of the year and literary fiction category at Australian Book Industry Association's annual awards in Sydney
First Nations writers and female authors have dominated the 2022 Australian Book Industry Association's (Abia) annual awards, with a debut novel by one of the nation's most promising young writers taking out top honours.
Diana Reid's Love & Virtue won the Abia book of the year and literary fiction book of the year at a ceremony in Sydney on Thursday night. Judges praised the novel as a darkly funny yet unflinching glimpse of early adulthood". In her review for Guardian Australia, Zoya Patel praised Love & Virtue as a multilayered page-turner on power, unrequited love and campus rape culture, wrapped in a coming-of-age narrative".
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