Good Behaviour

Description: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize I really wish I had written this book A real work of craftsmanship where the heroine is also the narrator yet has no idea what is going on. Hilary Mantel A biting dark satire of 20th - century Irish society that is both hilarious and sinister (The New York Times) Is it possible to kill with kindness? As Molly Keane's Booker Prize short - listed dark comedy suggests not only can kindness be deadly it just may be the best form of revenge. The novel opens as Aroon St. Charles prepares to serve her invalid mother a splendid luncheon the silver gleams the linens glow of rabbit mousse a dish her mother despises. In fact a single whiff of the stuff is enough to knock the old lady dead. All my life so far I have done everything for the best reasons and the most unselfish motives says Aroon soon after. In the pages that follow she will make her case reminiscing about her youth among the hunting - and - fishing classes of Ireland a faded aristocracy dedicated to distraction even as their fortunes dwindle. Keane's brilliant sleight of hand is to allow her blinkered heroine to narrate her own development from neglected child to ungainly debutante to bitter spinster: Aroon understands nothing yet she reveals all.
Title: Good Behaviour
Barcode: 9781681375298
Publication Date: 5/18/2021