![]() ![]() Aroon tells Rose, the housekeeper, to call the doctor and save the mousse for lunch. Her mother hates rabbit even more than she hates Aroon and keels over dead from, I guess, just the mousse’s powerful bunny emanations. The novel opens as Aroon serves her bedridden mother a rabbit mousse. Charles, who by the end of the first chapter will be the last surviving member of an aristocratic Irish family in reduced circumstances. I get vicariously embarrassed reading about embarrassment, and in places I had to put the book down for a while. Molly Keane’s Good Behaviour is one of those, inasmuch as it’s drawing room cringe comedy. Even books I wouldn’t otherwise have picked up are often winners. ![]() They’re my favorite publisher there’s this uncanny correspondence between their editorial policies and my personal taste. I review a lot of New York Review Books Classics books on this site because I read a lot of them. ![]()
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