Feast, The [electronic resource]
Margaret Kennedy2021
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With a new foreword by Cathy Rentzenbrink, this glorious rediscovered gem
exploring the mystery of a buried Cornish hotel will make you nostalgic for
1940s seaside holidays ...
'The miniature charm of a Baby Austen.' Observer
'Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist.' Anita Brookner
'Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny ... A feast indeed.' Elizabeth Bowen
Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel has just been buried in the
rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but 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: the selfish aristocrat; slothful hotelier; snooping
housekeeper; bereaved couple; bohemian authoress; poverty-stricken children -
and as friendships form and romances blossom, sins are revealed, and the cliff
cracks widen . . .
Both a glorious portrait of seaside holidays in post-wa...
Main title:
Feast, The [electronic resource] / Margaret Kennedy
Author:
Margaret Kennedy, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Faber & Faber, 2021
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (299 MB, 10:54:49 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Cathy Rentzenbrink
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780571367818
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
439182
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eAudiobook |