Let's Eat and Talk about Good Behavior by Molly Keane

Let's eat and talk about Good Behavior by Molly Keane. From Goodreads: '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.
Published in 1981, this was not Molly Keane's first novel, but was the first published under her own name. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. This isn't a long one. Join us!