This does mean that you are never entirely sure what is actually going on which just adds to the oddness. Aroon doesn’t always quite understand what is going on around her, initially because she is a child and later perhaps because she continues to be treated like a child. We see it all through the eyes of Aroon, the daughter of an aristocratic Irish family in the early part of the 1900s. There are also a lot of caricatures and absurdities but they hardly stand out in the bizarre world we are thrown into. There is a lot of love but it is often either miscommunicated or misunderstood. People do things mistakenly, out of misjudged love or hope or impulse. The art of Keane’s writing is that she has created characters that do awful things but seem not to be completely awful themselves. Everyone here functions on their own terms and for their own ends. The bookshop owner said she’d just finished this and kept accidentally referring to it as ‘Bad Behaviour’ which I think says it all.
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