The Last Weekend

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Description

Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, this is the chilling story of a rivalrous friendship – as told with deceptive casualness by the narrator, Ian. It opens with a surprise phone call from an old university friend, inviting Ian and his wife, Em, for a few days by the sea. Their hosts, Ollie and Daisy, are a golden couple, and the scene is set for sunlit relaxation. But dangerous tensions quickly emerge, and in the stifling atmosphere of a remote cottage in the hottest days of summer, Ollie and Ian resurrect a bet made twenty years before. Each day becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, setting in train actions that will have irreversible consequences.

Additional information

Weight 0.192 kg
Dimensions 1.7 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

272

Publisher

Year Published

2011-5-5

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

009954234X

About The Author

Born in Skipton, Yorkshire, Blake Morrison is the author of two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me, two novels (most recently the acclaimed South of the River and The Last Weekend), and a study of the Bulger case, As If. He is also a poet, critic, journalist and librettist. He teaches Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, and lives in south London.

The fascination is horrible, the prose addictive, the situation magnificently claustrophobic, the denouement shocking

Other text

Morrison has created far more than a sinister take on the country-house novel… This is a suspenseful thriller, but more importantly it succeeds as an exceedingly clever investigation into the strangeness of lies

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