After
La Saga des Cazalet
by Elizabeth Jane Howard, another famous Englishwoman of her time, Margaret Kennedy (1896-1967) came out of purgatory in France thanks to Éditions Quai Voltaire.
Of her, we don't know much.
She published novels and short stories between 1923 and her death, with worldwide success from her second novel,
The Constant Nymph
, in 1924, adapted for theater and cinema.
The Feast,
published in 1950, translated in 1951 by Albin Michel, then disappeared.
Until this day.
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Le Festin
takes place in Cornwall in 1947. At the bottom of a cliff, was the manor of Pendizack, transformed into a hotel by the Siddal family, following a reversal of fortune.
Was, because we learn at the beginning of the novel that a section of the cliff fell off and simply crushed the house and its inhabitants.
Well, not all of them.
And therein lies the suspenseful side of the affair, worthy of Agatha Christie.
The other interest of the story is the characters.
First the ruined owners, the Siddals.
Sir…
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