Charlotte Wood - The Weekend
Tue, 15 Oct
|The Vanguard
The Weekend is the brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things. Sharply observed & excruciatingly funny, it explores growing old and what happens when we're forced to uncover the lies we tell ourselves. Charlotte is in-conversation with Susan Wyndham.
Time & Location
15 Oct 2019, 6:30 pm
The Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
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About The Event
The book we've all been waiting for! The Weekend is the brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things. Sharply observed & excruciatingly funny, it explores growing old and growing up, and what happens when we're forced to uncover the lies we tell ourselves.
Charlotte is in-conversation with Susan Wyndham, Literary Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
About the Book
Four older women have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank and steadfast. But when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts dangerously for the remaining three. Can they survive together without her?
They are Jude, a once-famous restaurateur, Wendy, an acclaimed public intellectual, and Adele, a renowned actress now mostly out of work. Struggling to recall exactly why they've remained close all these years, the grieving women gather for Christmas at Sylvie's old beach house - not for festivities, but to clean…
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