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In a Victorian mansion hotel on a Scottish island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students from Glasgow gather for a residential weekend. The weekend proves to be a major turning point in the emotional lives of several people - just not quite in the way any of them expected.

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The great McIlvanney themes - class, guilt, the power of the book, the difficulty of goodness - are all there, seething under the surface -- Stuart Kelly * * Daily Telegraph * *
Remarkable . . . everything in the novel is illuminated by the play of a subtle, sceptical and yet affirmative intelligence -- Allan Massie * * Scotland on Sunday * *
Wonderfully witty and wistful * * Daily Mail * *
William McIlvanney paints a world of harsh reality, but does so in language that is strangely beautiful and hauntingly poetic -- Craig Russell

Weekend

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      Publisher Canongate Books
      Published 2 January 2014
      ISBN-13 9781782113065
      978-1782113065
      ISBN-10 1782113061
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In a Victorian mansion hotel on a Scottish island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students from Glasgow gather for a residential weekend. The weekend proves to be a major turning point in the emotional lives of several people - just not quite in the way any of them expected.

      Trade Review
      The great McIlvanney themes - class, guilt, the power of the book, the difficulty of goodness - are all there, seething under the surface -- Stuart Kelly * * Daily Telegraph * *
      Remarkable . . . everything in the novel is illuminated by the play of a subtle, sceptical and yet affirmative intelligence -- Allan Massie * * Scotland on Sunday * *
      Wonderfully witty and wistful * * Daily Mail * *
      William McIlvanney paints a world of harsh reality, but does so in language that is strangely beautiful and hauntingly poetic -- Craig Russell

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