Feast opens with Alison – a once-famous actor living a reclusive life with her partner in the wilds of Scotland – discovering a rabbit caught in a trap.
She doesn’t soothe it or speak to it as she pushes down on its neck until it snaps. She stands, feeling “the illogical ache of homesickness, of feeling far from where she is safe”, and carries its corpse back to their dilapidated manor house.
