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'A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yellow House.
'Three women. Three secrets. One weekend.
'Alison is an actress who no longer acts, Patrick a musician past his prime. The eccentric couple live an isolated, debauched existence in an old manor house in Scotland, a few miles outside their village. That is, until Patrick's teenage daughter, Neve, flees Australia to spend a year abroad with her doting, if unreliable, father, and the stepmother she barely knows.
'On the weekend of Neve's eighteenth birthday, her father insists on a special feast to mark her coming of age. Despite Neve's objections, her mother Shannon arrives in Scotland to join the celebrations. What none of them know is that Shannon has arrived with a hidden agenda that has the potential to shatter the delicate façade of the loving, if dysfunctional, family.
'Feast is the story of three women connected beyond blood, and what happens when their darkest secrets are hauled into the light.' (Publication summary)
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Other Formats
- Braille.
- Dyslexic edition.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Interdependence : Three New Novels
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 34)
— Review of Feast 2023 single work novel ; Missing Pieces 2023 single work novel ; The Art of Breaking Ice 2023 single work novel'British sculptor Barbara Hepworth wrote that ‘there is no landscape without the human figure’. Similarly, there is no human without the landscape in which they are situated, human and landscape mutually shaping, resisting and defining the other.
'Three new Australian novels probe this interdependence, each of them concerned with the historical forces that have silenced and confined women, and each of them testing the capacity of their female characters to assert their stories, their selfhood, in the face of a hostile and unfamiliar landscape. Critically, what differentiates the novels is the degree to which their authors discover within these environments a similitude with their characters’ emotional struggle, the landscape not merely adorning the narrative but becoming essential to it.'(Introduction)
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Interdependence : Three New Novels
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 34)
— Review of Feast 2023 single work novel ; Missing Pieces 2023 single work novel ; The Art of Breaking Ice 2023 single work novel'British sculptor Barbara Hepworth wrote that ‘there is no landscape without the human figure’. Similarly, there is no human without the landscape in which they are situated, human and landscape mutually shaping, resisting and defining the other.
'Three new Australian novels probe this interdependence, each of them concerned with the historical forces that have silenced and confined women, and each of them testing the capacity of their female characters to assert their stories, their selfhood, in the face of a hostile and unfamiliar landscape. Critically, what differentiates the novels is the degree to which their authors discover within these environments a similitude with their characters’ emotional struggle, the landscape not merely adorning the narrative but becoming essential to it.'(Introduction)
Awards
- 2024 shortlisted The Stella Prize
- 2024 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
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