Conversation Piece
Published on 1. June 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-84408-397-8 (ISBN)
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FOR FANS OF JANE AUSTEN AND NANCY MITFORD
'She was . . . marvellous' GUARDIAN
'I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved' DIANA ATHILL
'A writer of genius' WALL STREET JOURNAL
When Oliver visits Pullinstown, he is introduced to wild days of hunting and shooting, and to characters like his cousins, with their passion for horses and trickery, and Sir Richard, elderly, but a match for his headstrong offspring.
In this early novel by Molly Keane, the high romance and disarray of the vanished Anglo-Irish world is evoked with humour, nostalgia, and undercurrents of powerful feeling.
The author has also written under the pseudonym, M. J. Farrell.
'She was . . . marvellous' GUARDIAN
'I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved' DIANA ATHILL
'A writer of genius' WALL STREET JOURNAL
When Oliver visits Pullinstown, he is introduced to wild days of hunting and shooting, and to characters like his cousins, with their passion for horses and trickery, and Sir Richard, elderly, but a match for his headstrong offspring.
In this early novel by Molly Keane, the high romance and disarray of the vanished Anglo-Irish world is evoked with humour, nostalgia, and undercurrents of powerful feeling.
The author has also written under the pseudonym, M. J. Farrell.
Reviews / Votes
She was . . . marvellous * Guardian * I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved -- Diana Athill Keane's distinctive blend of elegant savagery and deep affection . . . its human relationships tortured like bonsai by good form, its open-hearted, sensual passion for horses, dogs and landscape * Evening Standard * A writer of genius * Wall Street Journal *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
229 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84408-397-8 (9781844083978)
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Molly Keane (1904-1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright. She grew up at Ballyrankin in County Wexford and was educated at a boarding school in Bray, County Wicklow. She married Bobby Keane, one of a Waterford squirearchical family in 1938 and had two daughters.
She used her married name for her later novels, several of which (Good Behaviour, Time After Time) have been adapted for television. Between 1928 and 1956, she wrote eleven novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell. Her husband died suddenly in 1946, and following the failure of a play she published nothing for twenty years. In 1981, Good Behaviour came out under her own name. The novel was warmly received and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
She used her married name for her later novels, several of which (Good Behaviour, Time After Time) have been adapted for television. Between 1928 and 1956, she wrote eleven novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell. Her husband died suddenly in 1946, and following the failure of a play she published nothing for twenty years. In 1981, Good Behaviour came out under her own name. The novel was warmly received and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.