"Hilarious and perceptive, here's the perfect seaside holiday read. We're in Cornwall in 1947, where a landslide has buried a hotel, fatally crushing guests in the rubble . . . Events leading up to the disaster are entertainingly revealed through the diaries, letters, thoughts, and conversations of the inmates of the hotel. And what an intriguing bunch they are: obnoxious children, an arty writer and her toy boy, nutty priest . . . snobs, slobs, and the lovelorn. The nail-biting tension to discover who actually survived the tragedy will keep you on the very edge of your deckchair."--Val Hennessy "Daily Mail"

"Exquisite comedy . . . Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny, The Feast is a feast indeed."--Elizabeth Bowen

"In the preface to Margaret Kennedy's sharply observed novel - originally published in 1950 ... we learn that a cliff has collapsed on the family-run Pendizack Manor Hotel in postwar Cornwall, England, entombing guests and owner alike under a heap of giant boulders . . . A deep sense of foreboding thus hangs over the playful, witty story that ensues, involving the friendships and romances of seven characters--each subtly based on one of the seven deadly sins--at the hotel shortly before disaster struck."--Emily Donaldson "The Globe and Mail"

"The Feast is aptly named . . . It has Miss Kennedy's narrative skill, her distinction, her grace, above all, her peculiar magic."-- "Guardian"

"Entertaining, beautifully written, and profound."--Tracy Chevalier

"Here again is a sort of madness, at which [Kennedy] is adept . . . A haunting sort of story."-- "Kirkus"

"A treat from start to finish."--Emylia Hall "The Guardian"