{"product_id":"the-last-weekend-9780099542346","title":"The Last Weekend","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fascination is horrible, the prose addictive, the situation magnificently claustrophobic, the denouement shocking -- Alan Taylor * Herald *\u003cbr\u003eMorrison 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 -- Christian House * Independent on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eA compelling psychological thriller that, in parts, will cause you to actually flinch -- Ben Felsenberg * Metro *\u003cbr\u003eDelightfully twisted -- David Mills * Esquire *\u003cbr\u003eThis is one achievement among several for Blake Morrison, who has written a novel that is at once artful and naturalistic, restrained and yet suggestive, and faithful to a perspective from which the readers wants to recoil -- Stephen Abell * Times Literary Supplement *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51358966317399,"sku":"9780099542346","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099542346.jpg?v=1754123023","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-last-weekend-9780099542346","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}