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2000s: Three old friends go to a beach house to sort out their friends affairs.
The Weekend
What you need to know before your trail
Sylvie, Jude, Wendy and Adele 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.
These women couldn’t be more different: Jude, a once-famous restaurateur with a spotless life and a long-standing affair with a married man; Wendy, an acclaimed feminist intellectual; Adele, a former star of the stage, now practically homeless.
Struggling to recall exactly why they’ve remained close all these years, the grieving women gather for one last weekend at Sylvie’s old beach house – not for a celebration of her life, but to clean the place out before it is sold.
But fraying tempers, an elderly dog, unwelcome guests and too much wine collide in a storm that brings long-buried hurts to the surface – a storm that will either remind them of the bond they share, or sweep away their friendship for good.
Travel Guide
An Australian Beach house awaits
This is not your normal visit to an Australian beach house. This one belongs to a friend of three 70 year olds who are there to clear out her house following her death. They can keep what they want to remember her by.
This is the reality of sorting through someone’s things and clearing out a house full of memories.
Not a book for locations, but one for memories, looking by and thinking about what friendship really means.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Weekend
Destination/location: NSW Author/guide: Charlotte Wood Departure Time: 2000s
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