I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. he stretched out a bare arm for Richard’s cigarette case. Read 274 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. “Hubert was sitting on the edge of the bed. “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. 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. Discussing ageing in the fiction of Molly Keane, Deirdre Madden and Anne Enright, this chapter examines the way in which these novelists. The St Charles family, Anglo-Irish to their core, are hanging on. The book spans pre- and post-independent Ireland. 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. Let no one suggest that Good Behaviour by Molly Keane is funny.
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