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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, 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 Mantel)
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)
An 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. (VOGUE)
A witty, black comedy of manners, GOOD BEHAVIOUR is a memorable novel by an Irish writer whose only equal is Elizabeth Bowen. (BOOKSELLER)
A fine novel, wickedly alive (Victoria Glendinning, SUNDAY TIMES)
Enchanting (Edna O'Brien, OBSERVER)
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*A brilliant comic novel about Anglo-Ireland that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean copy in price-clipped dust jacket, new price sticker for £5.50 (Republic of Ireland only). Name of previous owner on front free end paper. Photographs available on request. Published when Keane (1904 - 1996) was 76, this novel is her "masterpiece" (NYRB). A classic in the canon of 20th century Irish literature. A wonderful reworking of the "Big House" novel. She lived up to Elizabeth Bowen's comment about Keane, "her cynicism and pessimism are quite terrifying". Seller Inventory # 002835