Book Club — Good Behaviour

In June, the Primrose Hill Community Library Book Club will be discussing Good Behaviour by Molly Keane.

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. . .