The Last Weekend

The fascination is horrible, the prose addictive, the situation magnificently claustrophobic, the denouement shocking – Alan Taylor * Herald *Morrison has created far more than a sinister take on the country-house novel… This is a suspenseful thriller, but more importantly it succeeds as an exceedingly clever investigation into the strangeness of lies – Christian House * Independent on Sunday *A compelling psychological thriller that, in parts, will cause you to actually flinch – Ben Felsenberg * Metro *Delightfully twisted – David Mills * Esquire *This is one achievement among several for Blake Morrison, who has written a novel that is at once artful and naturalistic, restrained and yet suggestive, and faithful to a perspective from which the readers wants to recoil – Stephen Abell * Times Literary Supplement *The story is beautifully crafted, astutely observed and peopled with believable characters – David Robson * Sunday Telegraph *Morrison handles the elements of his novel with impeccable control – Stephanie Merritt * Observer *The fascination is horrible, the prose addictive, the situation magnificently claustrophobic, the denouement shocking * Glasgow Herald *An insidiously gripping tale * Country Life *This is a seriously good novel and it deserves to overtake a few more loudly trumpeted false favourites in the popularity and prize stakes * The Lady *

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.

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