The Feast
The Summer Holiday Seaside Crime Classic
$23.22
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2021
Summary
‘Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny, The Feast is a feast indeed.’ - Elizabeth Bowen
Cornwall, 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 th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571367795 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0571367798 |
| Author: | Margaret Kennedy, Cathy Rentzenbrink |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 371g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Margaret Kennedy
Margaret Kennedy was born in London in 1896 and read History at Somerville College, Oxford in 1915. She began writing while at Oxford, where she was a contemporary of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain.
In 1924, Kennedy’s second novel, The Constant Nymph, became a worldwide bestseller. She later adapted the novel into a successful West End play starring Noel Coward, and three film versions were subsequently made.
Described as ‘superb’ by Elizabeth Bowen, Kennedy authored fifteen further prize-winning novels, including The Feast (1950). She also wrote literary criticism and a biography of Jane Austen. Margaret Kennedy died in 1967.
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