Virago Modern Classics: Good Behavior (Hardcover)

from charbutton

I have to admit that I am prone to inverse snobbery. I don't enjoy reading about the 'problems' of the upper-middle/upper classes. Books like Atonement and A Handful of Dust just don't interest me. But maybe my opinions on this are changing (or maybe I'm finally growing up and gaining a broader o...

from mimal

bookshelves: booker-longlist, winter-20132014, play-dramatisation, radio-4x, britain-ireland, period-piece, published-1981, lit-richer, classic, families, suicide, filthy-lucre Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from February 06 to 08, 2014 BBC description: Behind the gates of Temple Alice...

from wendyrey

A story of a life of stiffled emotions and stiff upperlip, a world where appearing to do the right thing was more important than actually doing it and what you really thought and felt were unimportant. Well written and enjoyable

from otterpopmusic

Really good, but also really hard to take in places.

from TheWasp

The writing was excellent. I even reread the first chapter after i had finished the book as i knew there had been a murder, but i didn't get it the first time around. Unfortunately, i didn't like Aroon, or her mother and was glad to leave their household.