The Feast
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"Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist." —Anita Brookner Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster. Everyone else makes a narrow escape. As the survivors tell their stories, the events of the previous week are revealed, and a parade of sins exposed. Gluttony, Lecherousness, Sloth, Pride, Covetousness, Envy and Wrath: all are in residence at Pendizack Manor, and as the day of the disaster creeps closer, it becomes clear that who’s spared and who’s lost might not be as arbitrary as first assumed. A modern upstairs-downstairs comedy with an old-fashioned morality play tucked away inside, The Feast is sly, kaleidoscopic, and utterly ingenious, a novel that only Margaret Kennedy could have written.
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This was really good! It's hard to rate though and this is a time I wish goodreads did half stars; it's better than four stars but something was lacking for me to give five. Four feels better right now. I think if I'd read this at a slightly different time it could have been five stars though.
I did love this though. The setting and the characters were all so well done. (It did take a while to keep track of everyone though.) I know of the seven deadly sins thing, but didn't really try and figure out who's who (though some are easier to tell than others). Overall really good and I look forward to more Kennedy as the writing is really lovely.
