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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Feast
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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)

Notes

  • Author's note: For My Mother

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2023 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 304p.
      Note/s:
      •  Published 30 May 2023

      ISBN: 9781761067112

Other Formats

  • Braille.
  • Dyslexic edition.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Book Review : Feast, Emily O’Grady Erich Mayer , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , January 2024;

— Review of Feast Emily O'Grady , 2023 single work novel

'An unsettling, creepy story about dysfunctional families and slowly unravelling secrets.'

The Stella Prize 2024 : A Reading Guide to the Six Shortlisted Books Sarah L'Estrange , Katherine Smyrk , Nicola Heath , Declan Fry , Cher Tan , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , April 2024;

— Review of Body Friend Katherine Brabon , 2023 single work novel ; The Swift Dark Tide Katia Ariel , 2023 single work autobiography ; Feast Emily O'Grady , 2023 single work novel ; Abandon Every Hope : Essays for the Dead Hayley Singer , 2023 selected work essay ; Hospital Sanya Rushdi , Arunava Sinha (translator), 2023 single work novel
Unruliness, Activism and Emotional Intensity: Your Guide to the 2024 Stella Prize Shortlist Julieanne Lamond , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 2 May 2024;

'For more than a decade now, the Stella Prize, an award celebrating Australian women’s writing, has been changing Australia’s literary landscape. It has taken a monkey wrench to the way literary esteem is bestowed in this country. Its annual whack has shifted the calibration of what kinds of books are valued.' (Introduction)

Interdependence : Three New Novels Diane Stubbings , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 34)

— Review of Feast Emily O'Grady , 2023 single work novel ; Missing Pieces Jennifer MacKenzie Dunbar , 2023 single work novel ; The Art of Breaking Ice Rachael Mead , 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)

Interdependence : Three New Novels Diane Stubbings , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 34)

— Review of Feast Emily O'Grady , 2023 single work novel ; Missing Pieces Jennifer MacKenzie Dunbar , 2023 single work novel ; The Art of Breaking Ice Rachael Mead , 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)

The Stella Prize 2024 : A Reading Guide to the Six Shortlisted Books Sarah L'Estrange , Katherine Smyrk , Nicola Heath , Declan Fry , Cher Tan , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , April 2024;

— Review of Body Friend Katherine Brabon , 2023 single work novel ; The Swift Dark Tide Katia Ariel , 2023 single work autobiography ; Feast Emily O'Grady , 2023 single work novel ; Abandon Every Hope : Essays for the Dead Hayley Singer , 2023 selected work essay ; Hospital Sanya Rushdi , Arunava Sinha (translator), 2023 single work novel
Book Review : Feast, Emily O’Grady Erich Mayer , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , January 2024;

— Review of Feast Emily O'Grady , 2023 single work novel

'An unsettling, creepy story about dysfunctional families and slowly unravelling secrets.'

Unruliness, Activism and Emotional Intensity: Your Guide to the 2024 Stella Prize Shortlist Julieanne Lamond , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 2 May 2024;

'For more than a decade now, the Stella Prize, an award celebrating Australian women’s writing, has been changing Australia’s literary landscape. It has taken a monkey wrench to the way literary esteem is bestowed in this country. Its annual whack has shifted the calibration of what kinds of books are valued.' (Introduction)

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