{"product_id":"the-feast-by-margaret-kennedy-9780571367795","title":"The Feast","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTense, touching, human, dire, and funny, The Feast is a feast indeed.\u003c\/em\u003e - Elizabeth Bowen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCornwall, Midsummer 1947. Reverend Seddon is on his annual seaside holiday with Father Bott; but to his disgruntlement, his host is busy writing a funeral sermon after a local disaster. Pendizack Manor Hotel—a coastal boarding house perched in a sleepy cove—has just been buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished beneath the Cornish boulders: but who are they, and what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before succumbing to this Act of God—or Man?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the course of a week before the landslide, we are introduced to these holidaymakers in all their eccentric glory: the selfish aristocrat and her bullying offspring; slothful hotelier; snooping housekeeper; jilted chambermaid; bohemian authoress with her chauffeur toyboy; bereaved couple; poverty-stricken family; cranky canon and his terrified daughter. As guests of all classes and backgrounds are thrown together, friendships form, romances blossom, sins are revealed, and the cliff cracks widen...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed.\u003c\/em\u003e - Anita Brookner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46716526788844,"sku":"9780571367795","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11354063482391.jpg?v=1754430205","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-feast-by-margaret-kennedy-9780571367795","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}