The Feast -- Margaret Kennedy, Paperback

"Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist." --Anita Brookner

Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster. Everyone else makes a narrow escape. As the survivors tell their stories, the events of the previous week are revealed, and a parade of sins exposed. Gluttony, Lecherousness, Sloth, Pride, Covetousness, Envy and Wrath: all are in residence at Pendizack Manor, and as the day of the disaster creeps closer, it becomes clear that who's spared and who's lost might not be as arbitrary as first assumed.

A modern upstairs-downstairs comedy with an old-fashioned morality play tucked away inside, The Feast is sly, kaleidoscopic, and utterly ingenious, a novel that only Margaret Kennedy could have written.

Author: Margaret Kennedy
Publisher: McNally Editions
Published: 06/06/2023
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781946022509