Good Behaviour

Molly Keane

earliest edition we have, 1983 New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The, 2021 291 pages

"I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known...' Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behaviour. But crumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save...

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Good Behaviour edition · 2025 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 304 pages · 9780349019604
Good Behaviour edition · 2021 · New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The · 291 pages · 9781681375298
Good Behaviour edition · 1983 · Plume · 9780525482246

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