Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass, Lana Del Reyįor fans of audio books and poetry, Lana Del Rey will be bringing her debut poetry anthology to life in an audiobook, released on July 28. And this novel is staking a claim for the courage to allow this deep and continuous change to go on, to push back against society’s insistence that this possibility vanishes as we age.” But I believe we’re constantly changing in all kinds of ways, right up to the last moments of our lives. But over the weekend they spend together, they find that all of those uncertainties are completely and dramatically shattered. I wrote this book because I think our culture seems to have decided that after a certain age complex change is no longer open to us, and in that place of change there can only be stasis or degradation.
At this point in their lives, each of these women knows exactly who she is: they know what their lives have been about and they can more or less foresee how things will unfold for them from here. Says Wood, “ The Weekend is about three women in their 70s – Jude, Adele and Wendy – who come together over a couple of long, hot days to clean out the beach house of their recently deceased and beloved friend Sylvie.
The Weekend, Charlotte Wood, Weidenfeld & NicolsonĬharlotte Wood’s new novel is a powerful study of female friendship. But there will be a price to pay – and it will be unbearable. Jean cannot bring herself to discard the chance of finally having a taste of happiness. And Jean doesn’t mean to fall in love with Gretchen’s husband, Howard, but Howard surprises her with his dry wit, his intelligence and his kindness – and when she does fall, she falls hard. But the more Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely intertwined with that of the Tilburys: Gretchen is now a friend, and her quirky and charming daughter Margaret a sort of surrogate child. When a young Swiss woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is down to Jean to discover whether she is a miracle or a fraud. Set in the suburbs of London in 1957, Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and – on the brink of 40 – living a limited existence with her truculent mother: a small life from which there is no likelihood of escape. Small Pleasures Clare Chambers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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