The Weekend

Charlotte Wood

W&N £14.99

Questions of love, ageing and ambition are examined through the prism of a long friendship in this intimate, unsentimental novel about three Aussie Boomers now in their 70s. Restaurateur Jude, Adele, a sometime star of the stage who’s about to become homeless, and scatty Wendy, a feminist scholar trailed by a geriatric dog, have all gathered to clear out their late friend’s beach house. Wine flows and irritations simmer as a secret waits to be unearthed.