Weekend
By: William McIlvanney
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781846177477
Subjects: College teachers; Fiction; College students; Group reading
Description: One Friday, a group of lecturers and students arrive on the Scottish island of Cannamore for a literature study weekend &#x2013; although studying is not exactly what some of them have in mind. With his wife back in Glasgow, David Cudlipp feels free to seduce one of his students; Harry Beck hopes to be distracted from thoughts of his failed marriage and stalled writing career; and Andrew Lawson, organiser of the weekend, looks forward to a break from caring for his bed-ridden wife. Among the students, Kate Foster is set on losing her virginity and Jacqui Forsyth on getting over a break-up, while Vikki Kane, a divorced single mother, sees a chance to shed her inhibitions and care. Then there&#x2019;s Marion, nicknamed the Mouse, who plans only to observe everyone else from the wings. Naturally, nothing turns out quite how anyone expected&#x2026;
Notes: Originally published: London: Sceptre, 2006.