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Good Behavior by Molly Keane

December 22, 2021 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

As we meet Aroon St. Charles, she has just served a lovely luncheon of delicate rabbit’s broth to her very elderly mother.  Alas, the elder Mrs. St. Charles can’t abide even the scent of the stuff, and promptly keels over and dies.  Not to let such a delicious treat go to waste, Aroon finishes it off.  Well, now, that seems a little cold-blooded, no?  Ah, but richly deserved. Aroon was been born into the impoverished Irish gentry.  They are down to slowly selling off the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: 1920s, Bad parenting, black humor, Impoverished Irish gentry, Killer rabbit, Molly Keane, Unsympathetic heroine

elderberrywine's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: 1920s, Bad parenting, black humor, Impoverished Irish gentry, Killer rabbit, Molly Keane, Unsympathetic heroine ·
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