Loving And Giving
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
7 August 2006
Summary
In 1914, when Nicandra is eight, all is well in the grand Irish estate, Deer Forest. Maman is beautiful and adored. Dada, silent and small, mooches contendedly around the stables. Aunt Tossie, of the giant heart and bosom, is widowed but looks splendid in weeds. The butler, the groom, the landsteward, the maids, the men - each as a place and knows it. Then, astonishingly, the perfect surface is shattered; Maman does something too dreadful ever to be spoken of.
‘What next …Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844083251 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184408325X |
| Author: | Molly Keane, Michele Roberts |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 7 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 158g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 135mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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This novel is a rare treat
Molly Keane is astonishing … LOVING AND GIVING is perhaps her richest work yet, an exquisitely written black comedy with a shock ending. The language is eloquent and original, the descriptions divine - GUARDIAN
This novel is a rare treat - IRISH TIMESQuite the best book she has written - DAILY TELEGRAPHMolly Keane is astonishing … LOVING AND GIVING is perhaps her richest work yet, an exquisitely written black comedy with a shock ending. The language is eloquent and original, the descriptions divine - GUARDIANThis novel is a rare treat - IRISH TIMESQuite the best book she has written - DAILY TELEGRAPHAbout The Author
Molly Keane
Born in Ireland in 1904 into a ‘rather serious Hunting and Fishing Church-going family’ who gave her little education at the hands of governesses, Molly’s interests were ‘hunting & horses & having a good time’; she began writing only to supplement her dress allowance. She died in 1996.
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