Author | Margaret Kennedy |
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Language | English |
Genre | Drama |
Publisher |
Cassell (UK) Rinehart (US) |
Publication date | 1949 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type |
The Feast is a 1949 novel [1] by the British writer Margaret Kennedy. [2] It is a modern reworking of the seven deadly sins. [3] Her ninth novel, it was her first in more than a decade. It was a Literary Guild choice in America. [4]
In a Cornish coastal resort town a landslide of a nearby cliff buries a hotel, killing those inside but sparing those who have gone out on a picnic excursion.