Sackville West has borrowed in her prose writing some…įunction of poetry, the ability to suggest far more than she says.’ New York Times ‘Witty and charming and graceful and brilliant. A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK (BOOKER PRIZE GEMS) Molly Keane is a mistress of wicked comedy Vogue I really wish I had written this book. There, too, she recollects the dreams of her youth and at last, with one last ‘strange and lovely thing,’ acts upon the passion she forfeited seventy years earlier to the narrow conventions of a proper Victorian marriage. Keane gives us a lovely little twist right at the end but don’t worry Molly Keane is far too subtle to fall back on a conventional ending. After the death of her husband, Molly Keane moved. Some of the dialogue between them is wincingly sharp. In 1981 she wrote Good Behaviour under her own name the novel was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. There she alters, and not without some success, the course of her personal history. Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. Good Behaviour is beautifully written, the relationships are wonderfully complex, particularly that of Aroon and her horrid mother. She dismisses the wishes and plans of her six pompous sons and daughters for her future, and instead retires to a tiny house in Hampstead, where she chooses to live independently and free from her past. Good Behaviour TV Series 1983 1h IMDb RATING 7. 1 day ago &0183 &32 'Were in a crisis here and a familys ability or a parents ability to manage this right now is very limited,' says Robert Keane, a therapist at Walden Behavioral Care, an inpatient facility.

Having surrendered seven decades of her life to the exemplary, if often hollow fulfillment of her marriage, to the expectations of her statesman husband and the demands of her children, Lady Slane finally, in her widowhood, defies her family. All Passion Spent / Return of the Soldier / Two Days in AragonĮchoing the themes in A Room of One’s Own by her great friend Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville West remaps the destiny of the gentle, gracious eighty eight year old Lady Slane in this classic modern novel.

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