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by Molly Keane (Author), Marian Keyes (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition edition (1 Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844083241
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844083244
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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* ' Molly Keane's Good Behaviour is a remarkable novel, beautifully written, brilliant in its original idea and every page a pleasure to read. Good Behaviour is a tour de force P.D. JAMES *'Dark, complex, engaging ... A wonderful tour de force' MARIAN KEYES 'A masterpiece ... Molly Keane is a mistress of wicked comedy' MALCOLM BRADBURY, VOGUE *'The very best of Anglo-Irish writing' CLARE BOYLAN * 'An extraordinary tour de force' VOGUE * 'A masterpiece' BOOKSELLER * 'A fine novel, wickedly alive' VICTORIA GLENDINNING, SUNDAY TIMES * 'Enchanting' EDNA O'BRIEN, OBSERVER


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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the masterpieces of the twentieth century, 2 April 2001
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This blackest of black comedies ranks alongside Ford's 'The Good Soldier' as a merciless portrait of the emotionally repressed landed gentry in the early part of the twentieth century. Its naive narrator, Aroon, recalls a life straitjacketed by 'good behaviour' - that code of manners peculiar to her class - and it is left to the reader to see through her blind misinterpretation of events and piece together a story of tragic self-delusion. It is all done flawlessly with wit and panache and the lightest touch, and I can't recommend it highly enough.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bad behaviour disguised in "Good Behaviour", 30 Mar 2004
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A multilayered portrait of a young girl coming of age. Nothing is as it seems - a mother who is anything but motherly, a brother who is gay, the brother's friend whom the main character Aroon St Charles believes loves her, runs off with a school chum. All these set backs for Aroon are deftly or naively excused under the guise of "Good Behaviour" It's only when the family home is left to Aroon by her father does she feel redeemed in any way. A simple story, however each time I read it I find more about the characters. Perhaps the best example of characterisation I have ever read, and as a social history of the landed class in Ireland - unsurpassable!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious undercurrents, 5 Sep 2002
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This beautifully written book evokes a sense of time and place -but nothing is what it seems. From the children's nanny's flirtation with the master of the house, to the secret "love that dare not speak it's name" between the narrator's brother and the handsome schoolfriend - there are subdued and dangerous secrets. Layer upon layer of scandalous behaviour is unravelled, softly, cleverly and always subtle - good behaviour is a theme that the characters in this book certainly never adhere to! It's truly wonderful!
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