Good Behaviour

8 best books like Good Behaviour (Molly Keane): Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, A Game of Hide and Seek, Angel, At Mrs Lippincote's, The Bachelors, A Long Way from Verona, A View of the Harbour, Stet: An Editor's Life

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Author

Elizabeth Taylor

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. Together, upper lips stiffened,...

A Game of Hide and Seek

Author

Elizabeth Taylor

Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. But they are young. All life still lies ahead. Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. And then...

Angel

Author	Elizabeth Taylor
ISBN	1844083071

Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House . . .

After reading The...

At Mrs Lippincote's

Author	Elizabeth Taylor
ISBN	1844083098

Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that have vanished with the advent of war. Temporarily, this is home for Julia, who has joined her husband Roddy at the behest of the RAF. Although she can accept the pomposities...

The Bachelors

Author	Muriel Spark
ISBN	0811214249

First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs and shopping at Fortnum's, the cozy bachelors (as any Spark reader might guess) are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented — defrauded or stolen from; blackmailed or pressed to attend horrid séances — and...

A Long Way from Verona

Author	Jane Gardam
ISBN	1609451414

‘I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'

Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her- a confining world of Order Marks, wartime restrictions, viyella dresses,...

A View of the Harbour

Author	Elizabeth Taylor
ISBN	1844083225

In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory is painfully involved with her neighbour, Robert, while his wife Beth, Tory's best friend, is consumed by the worlds she creates...

Stet: An Editor's Life

Author	Diana Athill
ISBN	0802138624

A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd., Athill takes us on a guided tour through the corridors of literary London, offering a keenly observed, devilishly funny, and always compassionate portrait of the glories and pitfalls of making books.

Stet is a must-read...