# The Last Weekend

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- Book: [The Last Weekend](https://www.bookquiver.com/blake-morrison/the-last-weekend) ([The Last Weekend.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/blake-morrison/the-last-weekend.md))
- Authors: [Blake Morrison](https://www.bookquiver.com/blake-morrison)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9954-234-6
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2011-05-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Set 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. But 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.