ON SALE UNITED KINGDOM  24 JUNE 2020

'The Weekend captivated me from the excellent opening chapter ...  Wood evocatively captures the pasts of these resilient women, and her novel shines with rich symbolism, deft shifts in viewpoint and acutely observed details ... The women show us that change and growth are possible at any age, and The Weekend offers a compassionate message about accepting our different natures ... This wise, funny novel will help you understand yourself.'  ★★★★★
- Martin Chilton, The Independent
 
‘A lovely, lively, intelligent, funny book… So good on ageing and on the fraught, warm friendships between women.’
  - Tessa Hadley, author of The Past  
 
‘Masterful … the prose is sharply vivid
​and precise, the characters and location exceptionally real and I challenge anyone to write a better description of an elderly dog
and its owner.’
- Rosamund Lupton, author of Three Hours  
 
‘Friendship, ambition, love, sexual politics and death: it’s all here in one sharp, funny, heartbreaking and gorgeously-written package. I loved it.’
  - Paula Hawkins, author of 
The Girl on the Train
 
“Rich with character and nuance, The Weekend reminds us all that life doesn’t stop—whatever our age. A masterpiece of women’s fiction like nothing I’ve ever read.”
- Christina Dalcher, author of VOX
 
‘An unflinchingly observed celebration of the profundity and mundanity of friendship, treated with elegance, wit, and tenderness.’ 
- Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of
The Mercies
 
‘Positively hums with life… I loved it.’ 
- Claire Fuller, author of Bitter Orange
 
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‘Friendship, ambition, love, sexual politics
​and death: it’s all here in one sharp, funny, heartbreaking and gorgeously-written package. I loved it.’
  ​- Paula Hawkins, author of
The Girl on the Train
 
“An insightful, poignant, and fiercely honest novel about female friendship and female aging.”
- Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend
 
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AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD 
Winner, 2020  Literary Fiction Book of the Year: The Weekend

AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY
GOLD MEDAL
Shortlisted, The Weekend

STELLA PRIZE
Shortlisted, The Weekend

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"Sharp, funny, beautiful."
- Helen Garner
 
"Faultless cultural vivisection ... The Weekend exposes the pitiful flimsiness of our cliches with the simple (yet radical) act of fore-fronting well-written septuagenarian women."
- Beejay Silcox, The Weekend Australian 
 
"The most lovingly precise and insightful and funny and sad examination of female friendship ... she has absolutely nailed it. It’s a great, great book.”
- Annabel Crabb, Chat 10 Looks 3
 
'Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.  This is Wood’s greatest novel yet, and that’s saying something considering its predecessors.'
- Stephen Romei, Literary Editor,
The Australian
  
'This is a mightily accomplished work. Wood has created an intricate evocation of these anxious lives. Her central preoccupation are the questions: What have I lived for? What have I done with my one precious life?'
- Helen Elliott, The Monthly
 
"This richly textured novel is about so many things that it’s hard to do justice to all of them. Ideas about friendship, ageing and grief keep sliding kaleidoscopically in and out of focus. But there’s something even deeper going on, something about existence itself, that circles around the ancient dog Finn. ... Wood’s technique in this novel is masterly."
- Kerryn Goldsworthy,
The Sydney Morning Herald
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