"Jennifer Martin's book, Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing, is a valuable addition to the academic field of journalism and, in particular, literary/narrative journalism studies. Martin's new framework, the Virtue Paradigm, and new analytical tool, the Virtue Map, provide a means to better understand the way the best journalists couple in-depth research with subjectivity to construct engaging and effective stories. Underpinned by the premise that narrative journalism's goal should be to help us to live well together as a community, Martin tests her model by analysing a number of award-winning features for the virtues of courage, empathy, honesty, responsibility, resilience and phronesis (which Aristotle called 'practical wisdom'), arguing these virtues are consistently found in work judged most highly by peers and readers alike. By providing a fresh and original theory regarding feature writing and its impact, Martin has made a ground-breaking and exciting contribution to work in the field." (Dr Willa McDonald, Macquarie University).