![]() It is a world of horses and hounds and endless gin cocktails, actively hostile to the inner life a world where a child caught reading a book is admonished and sent back outside. To answer that question, Keane takes us back to Aroon’s origins in Temple Alice, the Anglo-Irish “big house” where she was born. When, afterward, she orders the housekeeper to save the leftovers for lunch-mustn’t waste!-we know, even if she doesn’t, that this act of symbolic cannibalism is meant to perfect her revenge. Let’s just say the book opens with Aroon speeding her invalid mother’s twilight years to their inevitable conclusion with the aid of an indigestible rabbit mousse. Take this first scene, in which she-well, murder is such an ugly word. “I have lived for the people dearest to me, and I am at a loss to know why their lives have been at times so perplexingly unhappy.”Īs a narrator, Aroon is a monster of repression, revealing things she herself does not know on every page. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Charles, the tall, bosomy antiheroine of Molly Keane’s Good Behaviour, minutes after killing her mother. “All my life so far I have done everything for the best reasons and the most unselfish motives,” says Aroon St. ![]()
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