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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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Loved the writing. The dialogue especially.

Hated almost all of the characters. Could not wait for the cliff to crush them.

Fantastic narrator. So good at the nuances. Best part of this book for me.

So good - and so annoying!

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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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