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Sally Phipps Molly Keane (Paperback). Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous forGood Behaviour which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Molly Keane's novels reflect the world she inhabited; she was from a 'rather serious hunting and fishing, church-going family'. Further DetailsTitle: Molly Keane Condition: New Description: Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Hailed as the Irish Nancy Mitford in her day; as well as writing books she was the leading playwright of the '30s, her work directed by John Gielgud. Between 1928 and 1956, she wrote eleven novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym M.J. Farrell. In 1981, aged seventy, she published Good Behaviour under her own name. The manuscript, which had languished in a drawer for many years, was lent to a visitor, the actress Peggy Ashcroft, who encouraged Keane to publish it.Molly Keane's novels reflect the world she inhabited; she was from a 'rather serious hunting and fishing, church-going family'. She was educated, as was the custom in Anglo-Irish households, by a series of governesses and then at boarding school. Distant and awkward relationships between children and their parents would prove to be a recurring theme for Keane. Maggie O'Farrell wrote that 'she writes better than anyone else about the mother-daughter relationship, in all its thorny, fraught, inescapable complexity.'Here, for the first time, is her biography and, written by one of her two daughters, it provides an honest portrait of a fascinating, complicated woman who was a brilliant writer and a portrait of the Anglo-Irish world of the first half of the twentieth century. Author: Sally Phipps EAN: 9780349007540 Format: Paperback Country/Region of Manufacture: GB ISBN-10: 0349007543 ISBN: 9780349007540 Language: English Item Height: 196mm Item Length: 128mm Item Width: 26mm Item Weight: 293g Genre: Biography Subtitle: A Life Publisher: Virago Press Ltd Release Date: 01/25/2018 Release Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
