The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

The Weekend by Charlotte WoodPeople went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn't true. The graveyard, the stony dirt that's what it was like now . . . Four older women have a lifelong friendship of the best loving, practical, frank and steadfast. But when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts dangerously for the remaining three. Can they survive together without her? They are Jude, a once famous restaurateur, Wendy, an acclaimed public intellectual, and Adele, a renowned

Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has neglected his livestock for too long

Ray tells stories of trucks not suited for blistering Australian heat

flying higher and higher as the wind warms

'Powerful and affecting and very timely

brimming with secrets

They developed the cattle station where water was scarce

his traditional motifs and a quirky sense of humour

Includes reproductions of bark paintings and artworks

a chest full of strange gifts and her own strong will

middle-class

Great characters and greater relationships come and go and come again

from the time that the explosive potential of splitting uranium atoms was discovered