![]() Until now, it’s the bond between Molly and her own mother, a poet from Antrim called Nesta Skrine, that has been the focus for commentators interested in the personal hinterland that gave rise to characters such as Aroon St Charles, who kills her disabled mother by feeding her rabbit mousse in the novel Good Behaviour, or Maman in Loving and Giving, who is impatient with her eight-year-old daughter’s efforts to please and who eventually disappears to join her lover, never to return. What made all this so fascinating was that Molly’s stock-in-trade as a writer, the theme that came up time and again through her long career, was fractured mother-daughter relationships. An extrovert, Molly – who died in 1996 at the age of 91 – often seemed infuriated by elements of her daughter’s character: her natural introspection, unpunctuality, tendency to comfort eat, and self-confessed laziness. ![]() Molly’s relationship with Sally had never been easy. ![]()
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