Weekend

By: William McIlvanney

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Synopsis: An &“illuminating and thought-provoking&” novel revolving around an academic gathering at a hotel on a Scottish island (Irvine Welsh, The Guardian). At Willowdale, a Victorian mansion hotel on a Scottish island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students have arrived from Glasgow. They are preparing for a weekend of lectures and intellectual discussions, though some look forward to less studious interactions as well. But as they gather, they don&’t yet know that this brief weekend will mark a major turning point in the emotional lives of several people, in ways that they never expected, in a novel from a Whitbread Award author that is filled with &“deft one-liners [and an] undertow of sadness&” (Times Literary Supplement). &“Wonderfully witty and wistful.&” —The Daily Mail &“The great McIlvanney themes—class, guilt, the power of the book, the difficulty of goodness—are all there, seething under the surface.&” —The Daily Telegraph)