The Last Weekend

The Last Weekend
ISBN-10
009954234X
ISBN-13
9780099542346
Series
The Last Weekend
Category
Male friendship
Pages
262
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Random House
Author
Blake Morrison

Description

Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, this is the chilling story of a rivalrous friendship. The scene is set for sunlit relaxation between old university friends. Two couples Ian and his wife Em and the golden couple, Ollie and Daisy resurrect a bet made twenty years before as dangerous tensions emerge. Each day becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, setting in train actions that will have irreversable and horrifying conseuences.

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