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The Last Weekend

The novel 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 whose glamour and happiness drive Ian to distraction, and dangerous tensions quickly emerge. Beneath congenial yet charged conversation over meals and wine, the history of Ian's attachment to Daisy is slowly uncovered. His rivalry with Ollie intensifies as they resurrect an almost forgotten bet made twenty years before. Each day becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, setting in motion actions that will have irreversible and fatal consequences.

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  • "When Ian receives a surprise phone call from an old university friend, inviting Ian and his wife, Em, for a few days by the sea, the couple agree to go. Their hosts, Ollie and Daisy, are a golden couple whose glamour and happiness drive Ian to distraction, and dangerous tensions quickly emerge. Beneath congenial yet charged conversation, the history of their relationship is uncovered. Ian and Ollie resurrect an almost forgotten bet made 20 years before. Each day becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, setting in motion actions that will have irreversible consequences."
  • "Als een echtpaar een weekend op bezoek gaat bij vrienden in een vakantiehuisje aan de Engelse kust, nemen ze hun problemen mee."
  • "Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, Blake Morrison's new novel 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."
  • "The novel 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 whose glamour and happiness drive Ian to distraction, and dangerous tensions quickly emerge. Beneath congenial yet charged conversation over meals and wine, the history of Ian's attachment to Daisy is slowly uncovered. His rivalry with Ollie intensifies as they resurrect an almost forgotten bet made twenty years before. Each day becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, setting in motion actions that will have irreversible and fatal consequences."@en
  • "Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, Blake Morrison's new novel 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."
  • "The novel 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 whose glamour and happiness drive Ian to distraction, and dangerous tensions quickly emerge. Beneath congenial yet charged conversation over meals and wine, the history of Ian's attachment to Daisy is slowly uncovered. His rivalry with Ollie intensifies as they resurrect an almost forgotten bet made twenty years before. Each day becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, setting in motion actions that will have irreversible and fatal consequences. In vivid, careful prose, where flashes of wit collide with moments of troubling uncertainty, Blake Morrison perfectly conveys the stifling atmosphere of a remote cottage in the hottest days of summer."@en
  • "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."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Sea stories"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Het laatste weekend"
  • "The Last Weekend"@en
  • "The last weekend"@en
  • "The last weekend"

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