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The Feast

By: Margaret Kennedy, Cathy Rentzenbrink
Narrated by: Colin Mace
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This summer holiday vintage classic exploring the mystery of a buried Cornish hotel invites us to solve the puzzle as detectives: perfect for Agatha Christie fans, with a dash of Richard Osman ...
'I am loving it!' Nigella Lawson
'Hilarious and perceptive ... Perfect.' Daily Mail
'Entertaining, beautifully written, and profound.' Tracy Chevalier
'Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny ... A feast indeed.' Elizabeth Bowen
'Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist.' Anita Brookner
'Oh boy, what a treat; wonderfully sharp and funny ... Page-turningly good!' Lissa Evans
'So full of pleasure that you could be forgiven for not seeing how clever it is.' Cathy Rentzenbrink (foreword)

Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel is buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but is it murder, and 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 cliff cracks widen....

©2021 Margaret Kennedy (P)2021 Faber & Faber Genre Fiction International Mystery & Crime Literary Fiction Mystery Fiction Crime Suspense

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So clever. So dark. So funny. Captures the nature of good and evil. I was blown away.

Insanely good

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Definitely recommend. A time gone by, old fashioned characters, but really enjoyed development of the characters and the narration. I was disappointed to reach the end of the book.

The Feast

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I struggled, in the very beginning, to get into this book, and almost gave up, what a relief I didn't! I thoroughly enjoyed it. The characters were fully fleshed out and intriguing, making for an excellent story, that had me listening at every spare minute!

Thank goodness I stuck with it!

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A curious hybrid that embraces various genres. It’s very compelling and beautifully narrated. A metaphysical golden age morality tale. I loved it.

Unusual and brilliant

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The premise for this tale is intriguing but the author fails to follow through where it matters. It's well-written and well-narrated, generally engaging and enjoyable, but what should be a dramatic and reflective ending just fizzles out. Some readers may like that as a device but I found it quite flat and disappointing. A lot of narrative, a bit plodding at times and would have benefitted from being maybe a 100 pages shorter, but overall a very companionable novel on a walk or drive.

An excellent premise but ...

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