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Good behaviour keane novel6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() he stretched out a bare arm for Richard’s cigarette case. A cold mother, a gay brother and a similarly inclined love interest all unseen or excused by the society focused upon good behaviour. Charles family, Aroon, nothing is as it seems. ![]() “Hubert was sitting on the edge of the bed. Published by Molly Keane in 1981, Good Behaviour tells a story of Irish society in the early twentieth century. “It was some time before they found her body, swollen almost to bursting the frilled bathing costume.” Meagre resourcesĪroon falls for Richard, Hubert’s friend. Poor, plump, sweet, Mrs Brock, the children’s governess. As Molly Keane’s Booker Prizeshort-listed dark comedy suggests, not only can kindness be deadly, it just may be the best form of revenge. And Papa has his “his endless strayings with all the other women who longed after him”. But Mummie is indifferent to all but Hubert, their beloved son. Aroon blunders through her teenage years. No matter what indignity, good behaviour must be maintained. Molly Keane was an Irish novelist & playwright. The St Charles family, Anglo-Irish to their core, are hanging on. So one of the choices in the April Book Box is Molly Keanes Good Behavior. The book spans pre- and post-independent Ireland. In 1981 Good Behaviour came out under her own name the manuscript, which had languished in a. Her husband died suddenly in 1946, and following the failure of a play she published nothing for twenty years. ![]() Every dismissal destroys.Īroon St Charles, too tall, too plain, too ungainly, is the only daughter of Mummie and Papa, of Temple Alice, a once grand, now decrepit, country house. Between 19, she wrote 11 novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym M.J. Let no one suggest that Good Behaviour by Molly Keane is funny. ![]()
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