![]() ![]() But it was an expensive way to spend your time, even then, and the only reason Molly really started writing was to finance her obsessive hunting. The same limited group of upper-class people met each other all over Ireland at the same events every year, sitting on the backs of these animals. The importance of horses in this world cannot be overestimated. Despite being well over 80 she continued to write, and Loving and Giving and Time after Time, both published later in the decade, are among her best work. She became a celebrity both in Britain and in her home- country, Ireland. Then personal tragedy intervened, she stopped writing and it was many years until, in 1981, the novel Good Behaviour was published under her own name, caused a sensation and just missed the Booker Prize. Farrell" and few outside her close circle knew who she really was. But all the time she wrote under the pseudonym of "M.J. ![]() She was a leading playwright in the 1930s whose work was directed by John Gielgud and produced by Binkie Beaumont, and she was an interesting novelist. Molly Keane had an unusual place in contemporary literature, in writing very good plays and novels under two entirely separate identities at different times of her life. ![]()
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