This really can't wait for Christmas: I'm buying 'The Weekend' for the weekend ... As an admirer of Charlotte Wood's prose and writerly wisdom, and with the additional impetus of being a 'mature' woman myself, this was always going to be a novel on my Aussie Author Advent list. I recently listened to Charlotte Wood being interviewed on the First Time Podcast (in fact that's where I got the whole idea for trying to do my little bit to promote Australian literature and authors)