The Last Weekend - Tapa blanda

Críticas

"Creepy, compelling, but often extremely funny... Unforgettable" (Financial Times)

"The fascination is horrible, the prose addictive, the situation magnificently claustrophobic, the denouement shocking" (Glasgow Herald)

"Delightfully twisted" (Esquire)

"At once artful and naturalistic, restrained and yet suggestive, and faithful to a perspective from which the reader watns to recoil" (Times Literary Supplement)

"A suspenseful thriller... An exceedingly clever investigation into the strangeness of lies" (Independent on Sunday)

Reseña del editor

Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, this is the chilling story of a rivalrous friendship - as told with deceptive casualness by the narrator, Ian. It opens with a surprise phone call from an old university friend, inviting Ian and his wife, Em, for a few days by the sea. Their hosts, Ollie and Daisy, are a golden couple, and the scene is set for sunlit relaxation.

But dangerous tensions quickly emerge, and in the stifling atmosphere of a remote cottage in the hottest days of summer, Ollie and Ian resurrect a bet made twenty years before. Each day becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, setting in train actions that will have irreversible and horrifying consequences...