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Book Review | Midnight Feast

Author: Martina Evans

Cover Art: Ben Warner

Publication date: September 3, 1996

Genre: Catholic school fiction, coming of age

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Midnight Feast is the dark and funny story of love in a convent boarding school. When sixteen year-old Grace arrives at Mayo, she immediately falls for the mercurial and glamorously thin Colette MacSweeney. She soon finds herself descending with Colette into life-threatening anorexia, entangled in the dysfunction that seethes below the surface of Colette’s family.

Midnight Feast is Martina Evans' first novel and even before its publication it won a Betty Task Award and was optioned for a film - which unfortunately never happened because this is such a masterpiece of a book.

This is the story of a 16 year old girl named Grace Jones when she's put in a Catholic boarding school in Ireland. And during her time in the school she meets Colette, a very problematic girl since she induces Grace into thinking that she is fat and that she should want to be as skinny as herself. Both get as skinny as a corpse and are diagnosed with anorexia. They also create a strange relationship - it's so weird I'm not even able to explain to you what it is.

I loved this book. Everything about it is fantastic. The plot is intriguing enough to get you addicted, and the words chosen to report the action and to describe the details are perfect. While reading I became so disgusted by anorexia and what it does to you that I insisted in eating well and regularly so that won't end up like them.

This is also a great book to spread awareness about eating disorders. I recommend it to young girls and boys who are entering secondary school since it is a time in your life in which you tend to follow everything that your friends do and you become really insecure about yourself.

As to the cover, it is just beautiful. I tried to find the name of the painting, but I couldn't. All I found was the name of the artist.

To conclude, this is a fantastic book and you should read it ;))

I once fell in love. And I didn't stand a chance. And I don't even know her name and I've never seen her face. But I spent countless hours loosing my mind by choice. Basking in the honey dripping sound of her husky voice.

I've heard her live through births and deaths. I've heard her laugh through joys and sorrows. I know how she sounds when out of breath. And I know by heart the tones that follow. I've heard her scream from the top of her lungs. I know her voice when it shamelessly quivers. And I know how 'I love you' tastes on her tongue. I've heard her whisper it under the covers.

I've even heard her sing. Oh, God, I've heard her sing!

And I know that I shouldn't. And I know she wasn't meant for me. But sometimes my mind wonders.

And I imagine All that we could be.

To Create Yourself In Your Own Image by Andrew Rose

8.5x11” & 11x17” Prints available through Queer Catalyst on Etsy and piece is featured in the zine A Murder Confessional: To Who I Was Before!

You’re left wondering:

do you want him or want to be him?

and there’s a day you realize

it’s both

How freeing it feels

How torturous it feels

How Holy

How deeply religious it is

to love another man while becoming one.