PositiveThe Washington Independent Review of BooksSprawling and nostalgic in both prose and construction, The Peacock Feast serves up characters who suffer dire consequences from poor decisions as well as happenstance ... The Peacock Feast doesn’t have the contemporary, fast-paced sense of so many historical novels today, instead embracing an old-fashioned feel. It’s more \'tea in the drawing room\' than #wineandbooks on Instagram, with ambling sentences meant to be read and not binged, and a sense of literary leisure at times evocative of the Gilded Age that anchors it.
