The Weekend: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Stone Yard Devotional
About this ebook
A Book of the Year for The Times, Observer, Independent and Good Housekeeping
'So great I am struggling to find the words to do it justice'
MARIAN KEYES
'A rare pleasure . . . I was shocked by how unusual it felt to spend 275 pages exclusively in the company of older women'
SUNDAY TIMES
'Riveting'
ELIZABETH DAY
'Glorious . . . Charlotte Wood joins the ranks of writers such as Nora Ephron, Penelope Lively and Elizabeth Strout'
GUARDIAN
'A perfect, funny, insightful, novel about women, friendship, and ageing'
NINA STIBBE
'Wood ably conveys that older women didn't used to be old, and that the experience of ageing is universally bewildering'
OBSERVER
'Triumphantly brings to life the honest, inner lives of women'
INDEPENDENT
'A lovely, lively, intelligent, funny book'
TESSA HADLEY
'One sharp, funny, heartbreaking and gorgeously-written package. I loved it'
PAULA HAWKINS
Sylvie, Jude, Wendy and Adele have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank and steadfast. But when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts dangerously for the remaining three.
These women couldn't be more different: Jude, a once-famous restaurateur with a spotless life and a long-standing affair with a married man; Wendy, an acclaimed feminist intellectual; Adele, a former star of the stage, now practically homeless.
Struggling to recall exactly why they've remained close all these years, the grieving women gather for one last weekend at Sylvie's old beach house. But fraying tempers, an elderly dog, unwelcome guests and too much wine collide in a storm that threatens to sweep away their friendship for good.
Praise for Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
'A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life'
SUNDAY TIMES
'A transfixing novel'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'A book about what it means to be good: simply and with great humility, it asks the big questions, leaving the reader feeling kinder, more brave, enlarged'
ANNE ENRIGHT
'I have rarely been so absorbed by a novel . . . A powerful, generous book'
GUARDIAN
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About the author
Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her novel The Natural Way of Things won the 2016 Stella Prize, the Indie Book of the Year and Novel of the Year Awards, and was joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. Her next novel, The Weekend, was an international bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize, the Prime Minister's Literary Award and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. In 2019 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and named one of the Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence. Her features and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Literary Hub and Sydney Morning Herald, among others. Charlotte lives in Sydney with her husband.
