The Feast

Margaret Kennedy

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Celebrated by Cathy Rentzenbrink, this glorious rediscovered classic exploring the mystery of a buried Cornish hotel is perfect for Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier fans ...

Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel is buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before this Act of God - or Man? Over the week before the landslide, we meet the hotel guests in all their eccentric glory: and as friendships form and romances blossom, sins are revealed, and the cracks widen ...

Review

Hilarious and perceptive, here's the perfect seaside holiday read ... Events leading up to the disaster are entertainingly revealed through the diaries, letters, thoughts and conversations of the inmates of the hotel. And what an intriguing bunch they are: obnoxious children, an arty writer and her toy boy, nutty priest . . . Snobs, slobs and the lovelorn. The nail-biting tension to discover who actually survived the tragedy will keep you on the very edge of your deckchair. ― Daily Mail

So full of pleasure that you could be forgiven for not seeing how clever it is. Like many of my favourite novels, it delivers an enjoyable story [but] also repays mulling over and re-reading... A playful and skilled writer. -- Cathy Rentzenbrink

Exquisite comedy ... Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny, The Feast is a feast indeed.

Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed.

Aptly named [for] it has Miss Kennedy's narrative skill; her distinction, her grace, above all, her peculiar magic. ― Guardian

A choice carton of reader's delight ... Irresistible. ― Daily Express

The miniature charm of a Baby Austen. ― Observer (on Lucy Carmichael)

Glittering, careless-seeming brilliance. ― Country Life (On The Constant Nymph)

There is a wildness [in Kennedy's mind]; a galloping, untutored spirit.

One of the best novels, old or new, that have ever absorbed a reader's attention during the still hours. ― New Statesman (On The Constant Nymph)

Super-romantic but also from time to time cool, ironic and remarkably shrewd ... Still spell-binding, the characters sharp and bold, the comedy still very funny. ― Sunday Times (On The Constant Nymph)

It has ruggedness and sweep and grandeur; it excites the imagination and stimulates the mind.

About the Author

Margaret Kennedy was born in London in 1896 and read History at Somerville College, Oxford in 1915 (alongside Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain) where she began writing. In 1924, Kennedy's second novel The Constant Nymph became a worldwide bestseller which she adapted into a hit West End play starring Noel Coward (three different star-studded film versions followed). Described as 'superb' by Elizabeth Bowen, Kennedy wrote fifteen further prize-winning novels including The Feast in 1950, as well as literary criticism and a biography of Jane Austen. She died in 1967.

Podrobnosti

Autor	Margaret Kennedy
Vydavatel	Faber & Faber
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	měkká
Počet stran	448
Formát	12,9 × 19,8 cm
EAN	9780571367795
Rok vydání	2021
Edice	Detektivy a thrillery Sci-fi, fantasy, horor Současná beletrie