The Feast

Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title of Never Look Back

A Cornish cliff collapses on top of a seaside resort hotel, squashing everybody bu…

If you like book The Feast here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

The Girls

Buy this book on Amazon
Ex-Wife

An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929—the story of a divorce and its aftermath, which scandalized the Jazz Age.

It's 1924, and Peter and Patricia have what looks to be a very …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Fortnight in September

The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for – domestic life at 22 Corunna Road in Dulwich, the train journey via Clapham Junction to the south c…
Buy this book on Amazon
Rhine Journey

It is the summer of 1851. An English family is making a romantic journey by paddle-steamer on the Rhine, and Charlotte’s imagination is stretched to the limit - one might almost say, to the breaking p…
Buy this book on Amazon
Someone at a Distance

'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love' commented the Spectator recently about this 1953 novel by Dorothy Whipple, which was ignored fifty years ago because 'edito…
Buy this book on Amazon
Quartet in Autumn

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem - loneliness.…
Buy this book on Amazon
Fear Stalks the Village

Buy this book on Amazon
Excellent Women

One of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of tho…
Buy this book on Amazon
Twice Lost

Novel of suspense in Gothic tradition.

"Subtly told, it concerns the disappearance of a little girl and the effect that the event has on the English village of Hilberry... Mis Paul manages to weave a f…
Buy this book on Amazon
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting is about the expectations of women, about a house-bound mother reluctantly (desperately) at home all day, in contrast to her daughter who has escaped, to university and then, we…
Buy this book on Amazon
A Spring of Love

Buy this book on Amazon
The Stepdaughter

Caroline Blackwood tells us the tale of a very unhappy housewife. She writes letters in her head to imaginary friends lamenting her many woes and frailties. What has brought on this depression? Arnold…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Slaves of Solitude

Buy this book on Amazon
A Green Equinox

Buy this book on Amazon
West

Buy this book on Amazon
The Priory

The setting for this, the third novel by Dorothy Whipple Persephone have published, is Saunby Priory, a large house somewhere in England which has seen better times. We are shown the two Marwood girls…
Buy this book on Amazon
Miss Mole

Buy this book on Amazon
The Nenoquich

Buy this book on Amazon
Crook o' Lune

It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands around the bend in the Lune river – the Crook o’ Lune. Then came the fire at Aikengill house and with…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Late George Apley

Buy this book on Amazon