The Weekend From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Stone Yard Devotional

Winner of the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize People went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn't true. The graveyard, the stony dirt - that's what it was like now . . . Despite the three women knowing each other better than their own siblings, Sylvie's death had opened up strange caverns of distance between them. Sylvie, Jude, Wendy and Adele have been friends for decades, but when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts dangerously for the remaining three. These women couldn't be more different: Jude, a once-famous restaurateur with a long-standing affair with a married man; Wendy, an acclaimed feminist intellectual; Adele, a former star of the stage, now practically homeless. Struggling to recall exactly why they've remained close all these years, the grieving women gather for one last weekend at Sylvie's old beach house. But fraying tempers, an elderly dog, unwelcome guests and too much wine collide in a storm that threatens to sweep away their friendship for good. 'A lovely, lively, intelligent, funny book . . . on aging and on the fraught, warm friendships between women.' - Tessa Hadley 'An insightful, poignant, and fiercely honest novel about female friendship and female aging.' - Sigrid Nunez