The vixen francine prose review7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I have come to depend on this brief précis-some people laugh, some don’t-to distinguish future fans of the book from readers who will be appalled. Mummie takes one whiff of the rabbit, vomits, and dies.Īll this occurs within the first four pages. Aroon brings up the tray before Rose can intervene. Besides, she’ll say it’s chicken and Mummie will never know the difference. Aroon says that Mummie is fine with rabbit. ![]() Rose reminds Aroon that Mummie hates rabbit. Aroon has made rabbit quenelles for her elderly widowed mother, bedridden upstairs. Charles is arguing with Rose, the family cook. In the opening scene of Molly Keane’s Good Behaviour, a novel about an Anglo-Irish household in the first half of the twentieth century, a fifty-seven-year-old woman named Aroon St. Molly Keane, Cappoquin, County Waterford, Ireland, circa 1939 ![]()
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