Queen Lear

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Eight-year-old Nicandra is named^tf r a horse. She lives with her parents,-Sir Der-mot and Lady Forester, and her aunt Mrs Fox-Collier (Aunt Tossie) at Deer Forest, an Irish country mansion, and loves to love and be loved. One day as she prattles about the grounds visiting Lizzie the housemaid, ! TVomey the butler, Mrs Geary the cook aii^ ¦ all the underlings, this delightful structure of life is struck as if by lightning: her mother has committed an act too dreadful ever to be spoken of and vanishes forever from Deer Forest.
Nicandra grows up cooing with the dogs, sleeping in Belgian lace, teasing the retarded peasant boy Silly-Willie and yearning to love and to giye. Frayed memories of her mother's perfume and a missing stableman vaguely disturb her When thé dandy Andrew catches her eye, Nicandra, beautiful, rich and badly dressed, marries him.
Queen Lear tells the story of tíiis frightful marriage and a world that has passed into oblivion. In it Molly Keane coolly... Tovább

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Eight-year-old Nicandra is named^tf r a horse. She lives with her parents,-Sir Der-mot and Lady Forester, and her aunt Mrs Fox-Collier (Aunt Tossie) at Deer Forest, an Irish country mansion, and loves to love and be loved. One day as she prattles about the grounds visiting Lizzie the housemaid, ! TVomey the butler, Mrs Geary the cook aii^ ¦ all the underlings, this delightful structure of life is struck as if by lightning: her mother has committed an act too dreadful ever to be spoken of and vanishes forever from Deer Forest.
Nicandra grows up cooing with the dogs, sleeping in Belgian lace, teasing the retarded peasant boy Silly-Willie and yearning to love and to giye. Frayed memories of her mother's perfume and a missing stableman vaguely disturb her When thé dandy Andrew catches her eye, Nicandra, beautiful, rich and badly dressed, marries him.
Queen Lear tells the story of tíiis frightful marriage and a world that has passed into oblivion. In it Molly Keane coolly disse'cte the tattered manners and withering $0GÍéty of the Anglo-Irish upper class, creating a winsomely evil comedy that starts before the last world wars and ends just after them.
yPraise in the United Kingdom for 4iueen Lear
"This riveting novel carries us again into the long hot summer mornings of childhood, and the pungent winter evenings of baths after hunting and grand dinners and giddy romantic intrigues. The story courses through the events of two decades until,
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at the end, the beautiful great house is decayed and dying (There is an| unflinching strength and honesty that has enabled this writer to achieve what looks like her best." —Sunday Telegraph
"It takes some doing these diiys to involve tis in the goings-on in a grand Irish country
house in the twenties____Molly Keane
keeps doing it." —The Times


"As a sj^ellbinding story-teller, wry wit and impressive social historian she well deserves all the accolades heaped upon her * for her books." —The Informer
'3Bhe attentive reader will find the beautiful derelict housed: the horse boxes, the hunt ball, the dogs .liut he will also find H a new feeling that is almost rueful, together with a quieter mood of reflection than he is gjj^et^." —Anita Brookher, The Spectator
melancholy evocation of life in a great house in the first fifty years of this : century." —Catholic Herald
"Molly Keane is a master—or mistress?—of character." —New Statesman & Society
"Molly Keane has done more than evoke a bygone world or chartered a noistalgic journey; this is a powerful and humourous statement about power and how it can be dreadfully disguised." — Yorkshire Post
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MOLLY KEANE was boHi ill Couiity Kildare^ írela educated by five governesses in quick succession. Her g^liiiu was rediscov^icd in 1981, when she appeared iif print as^ novelist with Good Behaviour; she has been called aiL nally good writer' for her M. J. Farrell novels written in 1920s and 1930s. She has written prolifically for niaj^azines and was recently profiled in The New Yorker. Queen Lear finished in 1988 when she was well into her eighties.
I read Queen Lear with total pleasure, admiration
-ALICE AI>AMS Vissza