Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Author:
Blake Morrison
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099581963
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EAN: 9780099581963
Published: 9 Aug 2012
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 and horrifying consequences...
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Creepy, compelling, but often extremely funny... Unforgettable
- Financial Times
The fascination is horrible, the prose addictive, the situation magnificently claustrophobic, the denouement shocking
- Glasgow Herald
At once artful and naturalistic, restrained and yet suggestive, and faithful to a perspective from which the reader watns to recoil
- Times Literary Supplement
Gripping...a masterpiece of pacing and revelation - the kind of book you geniunely might read in one sitting... Morrison is a master of his craft
- Irish Times
Born in Skipton, Yorkshire, Blake Morrison is the author of two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me, two novels (most recently the acclaimed South of the River and The Last Weekend), and a study of the Bulger case, As If. He is also a poet, critic, journalist and librettist. He teaches Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, and lives in south London.
