FEAST

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, Patrick a musician. Famous, wealthy, and past their creative prime, the couple live an isolated existence in the Scottish Highlands. That is, until Patrick's teenage daughter Neve flees Australia to spend a year abroad with her father and Alison, the step-mother she barely knows. Feast takes place over the course of a celebratory weekend, when Neve's mother Shannon descends on the house for Neve's 18th birthday. When Alison, still mourning the death of her mother, unexpectedly and miraculously falls pregnant, she sees her unborn child as an opportunity to restore balance to the universe: a chance to right the wrongs that haunt the family. Over the duration of the weekend, tension builds and facades crumble. Feast is the story of three women connected beyond blood, and what happens when their darkest selves are hauled into the light. EMILY O'GRADY is a writer from Brisbane. Her debut novel, The Yellow House, won the 2018 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. Her work has been published in Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue fiction edition, and New Australian Fiction 2021.