Loving and Giving

Author(s): Molly Keane

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction

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? Who to love?' asks Nicaranda. And through her growing up and marriage her answer is to swamp those around her with kindness - while gradually the great house crumbles under a weight of manners and misunderstanding.

1988. First edition. A near fine copy only marked by a small stain to the top edge. The d/w is unclipped and also near fine.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780233983462
  • : ANDRE DEUTSCH
  • : Andre Deutsch Ltd
  • : September 1988
  • : ---length:- '22'width:- '14'units:- Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 256
  • : 823.9/12
  • : Hardback
  • : Molly Keane