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'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)
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Selected as one of the Guardian Australia best Australian books of 2022
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Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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A Hot-vax, Post-Covid Summer
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22 October 2022; (p. 18)
— Review of Seeing Other People 2022 single work novel -
The Best New Books Released in October as Selected by Avid Readers and Critics
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , October 2022;
— Review of Seeing Other People 2022 single work novel ; Limberlost 2022 single work novel ; The Sun Walks Down 2022 single work novel -
‘Funny’, ‘Punchy, ‘A Gorgeous Writer’ : the Best Australian Books Out in October
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 4 October 2022;
— Review of Seeing Other People 2022 single work novel ; Tripping Over Myself : A Memoir of a Life in Comedy 2022 single work autobiography ; Limberlost 2022 single work novel ; Faith, Hope and Carnage 2022 single work autobiography interview ; A Kind of Magic 2022 single work autobiography ; The Sun Walks Down 2022 single work novel
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‘Funny’, ‘Punchy, ‘A Gorgeous Writer’ : the Best Australian Books Out in October
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 4 October 2022;
— Review of Seeing Other People 2022 single work novel ; Tripping Over Myself : A Memoir of a Life in Comedy 2022 single work autobiography ; Limberlost 2022 single work novel ; Faith, Hope and Carnage 2022 single work autobiography interview ; A Kind of Magic 2022 single work autobiography ; The Sun Walks Down 2022 single work novel -
The Best New Books Released in October as Selected by Avid Readers and Critics
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , October 2022;
— Review of Seeing Other People 2022 single work novel ; Limberlost 2022 single work novel ; The Sun Walks Down 2022 single work novel -
A Hot-vax, Post-Covid Summer
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22 October 2022; (p. 18)
— Review of Seeing Other People 2022 single work novel
Awards
- 2023 longlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year — Adult Fiction Book of the Year
- 2023 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- 2023 shortlisted Indie Awards — Fiction