A Weekend with Claude
Published on 25. September 2025
232 pages
978-1-917092-43-2 (ISBN)
Description
An old snapshot shows a group of friends lounging in the sunshine, on a weekend in the country. They're there at the invitation of Claude and his wife Julia. The girl in the centre is dreamy Lily, whose latest failed love affair forms the purpose of the weekender gathering, as Lily's friends set out to help her ensnare an unwitting father for her unborn child. Next to her is Norman, a Marxist romantic hell-bent on seducing his milk-white hostess; behind them is old, persecuted Shebah; and slightly apart, the young man on whom all hopes are pinned: quiet, pleasant Edward.
Told through the fractured narratives of Claude, Lily, Shebah and Norman, a darkly comic weekend of friendship and failure unravels.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,38 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-917092-43-2 (9781917092432)
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Beryl Bainbridge was the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and among other awards, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Guardian Fiction Prize. She died in 2010.
