A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK (BOOKER PRIZE GEMS) 'Molly Keane is a mistress
of wicked comedy' VOGUE 'She was . . . marvellous' GUARDIAN 'Dark complex engaging . .
. a wonderful tour de force' MARIAN KEYES 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 the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires.
This elegant and allusive novel established Molly Keane as the natural successor to Jean Rhys.
'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
