Weekend

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 themesclass, guilt, the power of the book, the difficulty of goodnessare all there, seething under the surface.' The Daily Telegraph)