Product Description
Feast (Hardcover)
Author: Catherine Kurtz
Format: Hardcover
In the soot-streaked alleys of 19th-century London, Minha is a girl unlike any other – born with an extraordinary gift: an overwhelming, all-consuming sense of taste. Desperate to escape a life of poverty, she crosses the sea to France, chasing the shimmer of a better future.
At Château de Bellefalaise, a grand estate with fairytale turrets perched above a sleepy village, Minha’s talent is discovered when she detects poison in a dish about to be served to the château’s master, Duc Nicolas. For the first time in her life, her strange ability becomes her salvation – and her curse.
Appointed the Duc’s personal poison-taster, she is confined to her tasting room and forced to live in the chateau’s shadows. With each dish, she enters a world of glittering porcelain and gilded secrets, where danger simmers beneath every course…
But when she loses her miraculous gift and suspicion coils through the corridors, Minha must confront a terrifying truth: without her gift, who is she – and what remains of the life she’s fought so hard to build?
Feast is a sumptuous historical novel brimming with intrigue and sensory wonder – a dark fairytale for readers who love Jessie Burton, Elizabeth Macneal and Bridget Collins.
‘A lush and sensory novel . . .This is a story that lingers’ — Emma Pei Yin, author of When Sleeping Women Wake
‘Feast held me in its thrall from the first page and never let go . . . an immersive, enthralling, extraordinary piece of historical fiction’ — Rachel Blackmore, author of Costanza
‘A beautiful book, vivid and delicious and alive . . . I loved it’ — Alex Hay, author of The Housekeepers
‘Feast is a tasty read, a fantastic novel filled with glorious detail and deliciously vivid story-telling . . . I highly recommend it’ — Salena Godden, author of Mrs Death Misses Death
‘A novel to savour, bursting with rich delights’ — Laura Wilkinson, author of Redemption Song
‘Sensuous and richly imagined’ — Beth Miller, author of The Missing Letters of Mrs Bright
‘Where Perfume traced the pursuit of power, Feast examines a life of resistance’ — Mark A. Radcliffe, author of Three Gifts
‘Kurtz is the real deal – an absolute original’ — Mick Jackson, author of The Underground Man
‘A novel that truly captures the senses . . . Perfect for readers who love atmospheric historical fiction’ — Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City
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