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Mad Puppetstown

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2nd May 2013

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781405526937

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‘She was . . . marvellous’ GUARDIAN

‘I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved’ DIANA ATHILL

‘A writer of genius’ WALL STREET JOURNAL

In the early 1900s, Easter lives with her Aunt Brenda, her cousins Evelyn and Basil, and their Great-Aunt Dicksie in an imposing country house, Puppetstown which casts a spell over their childhood. Here they spend carefree days taunting the peacocks in Aunt Dicksie’s garden, shooting snipe and woodcock, hunting, and playing with Patsy, the boot boy.

But the house and its inhabitants are not immune to the ‘little, bitter, forgotten war in Ireland’ and when it finally touches their lives all flee to England. All except Aunt Dicksie who refuses to surrender Puppetstown’s magic. She stays on with Patsy, living in a corner of the deserted house while in England the cousins are groomed for Society. But for two of them those wild, lost Puppetstown years cannot be forgotten.

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Evening Standard
Keane's distinctive blend of elegant savagery and deep affection . . . its human relationships tortured like bonsai by good form, its open-hearted, sensual passion for horses, dogs and landscape
Guardian
She was . . . marvellous
Wall Street Journal
A writer of genius
Diana Athill
I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved