EAN: 9780593086445

THE WEEKEND - CHARLOTTE WOOD KARTONIERT (TB)

#1 International Bestseller * Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2020 * Longlisted for the 2020
Miles Franklin Award  When three best friends in their seventies come together for one last
summer weekend to mark the death of a fourth friend  they begin to see their lives and loyalty
to one another more clearly.  For nearly four decades  lifelong friends Jude  Wendy  Adele  and
Sylvie have seen each other through romances  child-rearing  changing careers  divorces 
medical recoveries  and general aging. But now Sylvie has died  and the three remaining women
are tasked with cleaning out her beach house before it's sold. Over the course of a hot  muggy
weekend  Jude  Wendy  and Adele gather for one last time in this memory-filled spot on the
beach  and get to work restoring the house  and - in Sylvie's absence - their trust in one
another.  It's not a sentimental event. The weather is sticky  the work is grimy  and Sylvie's
absence brings constant tension. It's immediately clear that Sylvie had been the one who made
the friendship work between such utterly different women: "perfect Jude" with her perfectly
designed life and long-standing relationship with a married man  feminist  intellectual 
widowed Wendy  now obsessed with keeping her elderly dog alive  and glamorous  preening Adele 
a former star of the stage  now practically broke and homeless. Thrust together in this
weathered old house on the ocean  where the ghosts of their younger selves compete with their
current realities  the women ponder a collective lifetime of loves and grievances 
disappointments and successes  and ultimately  how a life can change in a single unexpected
instant - or over the course of a weekend.

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