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The Midnight Feast

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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Summary and Study Guide

Overview

The Midnight Feast (2024) is a mystery written by best-selling mystery writer Lucy Foley. Lucy Foley is known for her twisty, contemporary mystery novels including The Guest List (2020) and The Paris Apartment (2022). The Guest List was critically acclaimed and listed as one of the New York Times best thrillers of 2020. The Midnight Feast is the story of people brought back together in a small town on the English coast for the opening of a fancy boutique hotel, 15 years after the murder of a local woman. As the story unfolds through shifting timelines and perspectives, long-held class tensions and secrets come to the surface. In the background lurks a mysterious group called the Birds with connections to the ancient forest being privatized and destroyed for the hotel expansion.

This guide is based on the 2024 Harper Collins UK edition of The Midnight Feast.

Content Warning: The source material features depictions of alcohol addiction, as well as discussions of sexual assault and suicide.

Plot Summary

In 2010, Bella—a young, working-class teenager, vacations in the small town of Tome on the Dorset coast of southern England. There, she meets blurred text
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