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, Minhas talent is discovered when she detects poison in a dish about to be served to the chateaus master, Duc Nicolas. For the first time in her life, her strange ability becomes her salvation – and her curse. Appointed the Ducs personal poison-taster, she is confined to her tasting room and forced to live in the chateaus 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 shes fought so hard to build?

Feastis a sumptuous historical novel brimming with intrigue and sensory wonder – a dark fairytale for readers who love Jessie Burton, Elizabeth Macneal and Bridget Collins.