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A fine novel, wickedly alive―Victoria Glendinning, SUNDAY TIMESI 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, where the heroine is also the narrator, yet has no idea what is going on. You read it with mounting horror and hilarity as you begin to grasp her delusion―Hilary MantelI 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'FarrellEnchanting―Edna O'Brien, OBSERVERAn extraordinary tour de force of fictional presentation... a masterpiece... a technically remarkable work, as sharp as a blade... Molly Keane is a mistress of wicked comedy.―VOGUEA witty, black comedy of manners, GOOD BEHAVIOUR is a memorable novel by an Irish writer whose only equal is Elizabeth Bowen.―BOOKSELLER

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About the Author

Born in Ireland in 1904 into a 'rather serious Hunting and Fishing Church-going family' who gave her little education at the hands of governesses, Molly's interests were 'hunting & horses & having a good time'; she began writing only to supplement her dress allowance. She died in 1996.

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Product details

Series: Virago Modern Classics (Book 222)

Paperback: 256 pages

Publisher: Virago; New edition (December 15, 2005)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1844083241

ISBN-13: 978-1844083244

Product Dimensions:

5 x 0.5 x 7.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.3 out of 5 stars

34 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#93,033 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This is a very well written book, a dark comedy of manners, which is narrated by a totally unreliable narrator, the almost delusional and pitiful Aroon St. Charles. It is Keane’s great strength that she can give us a tale told by a tall and heavy daughter of privilege which is completely misinterpreted by the narrator, Aroon, but is clear and sad to the reader. In the end, Aroon St. Charles wants what all humans want which is to love and be loved. Unfortunately, she has a mother that is cold as ice, a father that hunts and shoots six days a week and does not attend properly to the dwindling family fortune, and a handsome charming intelligent brother whose sexual orientation is obvious to every reader and yet is completely missed by Aroon. Yet, Aroon is not completely unaware. The chapter where she goes to the grand holiday party of wealthy neighbors demonstrates that Aroon can read many social cues quite well. There is a central significant tragedy and loss in the first half of the book that the reader will recognize as the most tragic loss of Aroon’s life. This loss is central to the trajectory of Aroon’s later life but somehow she never comes to grips with the gravity of this loss upon her family, a family with good behavior, and thus the inability to grieve. How does someone who is unattractive and is never nurtured by her parents make it through life? Keane portrays Aroon as taking every tiny bit of affection or regard and expanding it in her mind as meaningful. This romantic illusion keeps her going. Whereas this can be comic, it is dark comedy –carefully constructed and revealed bit by bit-but a tragedy none-the-less.

A brilliant portrayal of an aristocratic family living in Ireland who are down on their luck, and in complete denial of their situation.Although they are struggling to make ends meet and the bills are never paid, they continue to live the lives they are accustomed to with cooks and maidservants and the rest of the paraphernalia.The subject matter has been written of many times but Molly Keane adds another dimension with her razor sharp writing and presentation of her characters. The mother, all too absorbed in "good behaviour" shows not an ounce of emotion and even in the face of terrible tragedy remains cool and distant. The father has much more warmth and understanding but his days are occupied with his hunting...... pheasants and foxes and women. Hubert is the good looking heir, whose intimate is his friend Richard with whom Aroon imagines a romantic bond of some sort. It is Aroon who relates the story and to whom all our feelings are directed. She is "a large girl...with enormous bosoms" and yearns for love and recognition. I felt deeply for Aroon. She is without guile and one must sympathise with her lot in life. Molly Keane creates a character in Aroon St. Charles who will be difficult to forget. I didn't find the book "sad" at all as some reviewers did...but I delighted in the characters and laughed out loud more than a few times.I absolutely recommend this book to those who understand British humour and appreciate a story that is different and quirky.The ending is WONDERFUL!

Truly wonderful. Molly Keane is a modern Jane Austen. Best book I've read in months, if not years.

I just read this for the first time as a middle-aged woman, and it is now one of my favorite novels. It's hard to find a new writer that you love this much at my age. The novel follows the hapless oblivious heroine through a series of humiliating trials until the final satisfying conclusion. Very very funny.

Enjoyed the book thoroughly. Keane is a skillful writer who truly appreciates each of her characters, and has a way of finding outlandish images to convey the true experience of a moment, a mood, or an event.

What a gift this writer has for fiction! She produced this book much later in life, and it's a gem.

Great!

a rare and wonderful discovery - a bizarre and interesting novel

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