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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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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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This is a wonderful story, brilliantly written and narrated. I will certainly listen to it again in the future.

Fabulous book

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I really enjoyed this haunting book. Set over a week as a huge flashback from a disaster, it thoroughly explores characters and relationships as they ebb and flow. Through this exploration many themes are tackled, little mysteries resolved, human frailties and courage exposed. As it was written just after the 2nd world war its also a great insight into life and society in England then. Of course its a little slower paced than a zippy detective novel, giving more space to the above, but its not boring. I don't agree that the end was unsatisfactory, but it is a bit sudden, and you naturally want to know what happens next. But it's all the more tantalising for that. It's well read too, just enough characterisation.

Strange and compelling tale

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Briefly - the prologue of this title, excellently narrated by the brilliant Colin Mace, had me intrigued from the beginning and had me wanting to read on. It promised a mystery which never arrived, and sadly did not deliver as expected. I felt the abrupt ending required an epilogue, which also didn't arrive.

Long-winded so patience is required!

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