The Last Weekend

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<p>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.</p><p>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.</p>

Autorenportrait

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

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