Feast

Name: Feast
Brand: Quercus Books
Price: 42.75 AUD
Availability: PreOrder

By: Catherine Kurtz

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Hardcover | 15 September 2026 | Edition Number 1

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24.0 x 15.6

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She can taste anything.
Everything.
Every ingredient in a recipe.
The earth in which the potatoes were grown.
The tree on which the fruits were ripened.
She can taste it all.
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 Chateau 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 chateau'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 beautiful book, vivid and delicious and alive . . . I loved it' ALEX HAY

'Feast is a tasty read, a fantastic novel filled with glorious detail and deliciously vivid story-telling . . . I highly recommend it' SALENA GODDEN

'A novel to savour, bursting with rich delights' LAURA WILKINSON

'Sensuous and richly imagined' BETH MILLER

'Where Perfume traced the pursuit of power, Feast examines a life of resistance' MARK RADCLIFFE

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