![]() ![]() This elegant and allusive novel established Molly Keane as the natural successor to Jean Rhys. ![]() But crumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires. The critic focuses the novel Good Behavior, where the big house theme (the big residence of the haute bourgeoisie of. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behaviour. I have always known.'īehind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. 'I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. ![]() *'A mistress of wicked comedy' MALCOLM BRADBURY, VOGUE *A brilliant comic novel about Anglo-Ireland that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ![]()
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