A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK (BOOKER PRIZE GEMS)
'Molly Keane is a mistress of wicked comedy' Vogue 'I really wish I
had written this book. It's a tragi-comedy set in Ireland after the
First World War. A real work of craftsmanship' Hilary Mantel I do
know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always
known . . . Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic
Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace.
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. But crumbling codes of
conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family
from their own unruly and inadmissible desires. This elegant and
allusive novel established Molly Keane as the natural successor to
Jean Rhys. 'I have read and re-read Molly Keane more, I think, than
any other writer. Nobody else can touch her as a satirist,
tragedian and dissector of human behaviour. I love all her books,
but Good Behaviour and Loving and Giving are the ones I return to
most' Maggie O'Farrell
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