The Feast is a 1950 novelThe [https://novelfeast.com/ Novel Feast, by Margaret Kennedy ] Retrieved 15/1/2021. by the British writer Margaret Kennedy.Humble p. 33-34 It is a modern reworking of the seven deadly sins.Stringer & Sutherland p.358 Her ninth novel, it was her first in more than a decade. It was a Literary Guild choice in America.Hammill p.150 An excerpt titled "Never Look Back" appeared in Ladies' Home Journal in 1949.
Synopsis 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.
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