Molly Keane Books in Order

Visiting his Irish cousins at Ballinrath House, Allan quickly falls for Cousin Ann. But Ann appears interested in Captain Dennys St Lawrence, leaving Allan to navigate a romantic rivalry within the distinctive world of the country house and its inhabitants.

Nineteen-year-old Prudence revels in horses, dogs, and the freedom of the Irish countryside. Her friendship with Peter becomes unsettled by new romantic interests, while a handsome neighbor and an inexplicable haunting complicate her turbulent passage into adulthood.

Orphaned siblings Roguey, Maeve, and Jer share an intimate life at their country home until Maeve prepares to marry. The arrival of bridesmaid Mary disturbs their established affections, exposing desires and vulnerabilities that threaten the family’s carefully maintained closeness.

Easter and her cousins grow up enchanted by Puppetstown, an Irish country house filled with hunting, games, and family rituals. Political violence sends most of the household to England, but the lost world of their childhood continues to shape their lives.

Jessica’s devotion to her wealthy companion Jane conceals a fiercely possessive cruelty. When George Playfair draws Jane away to Ireland, a struggle for her loyalty begins, revealing the destructive forces beneath friendship, dependency, and the pursuit of affection.

At the Irish mansion Silverue, domineering Lady Bird prepares for her son’s return from an asylum with help from her confidante Eliza. But hidden loyalties and long-buried secrets threaten to disrupt the family life she insists on controlling.

A visit to Pullinstown draws Oliver into the hunting, shooting, and family entanglements of an Anglo-Irish country house. His spirited cousins and their formidable father inhabit a world where social rituals conceal strong feelings and personal disorder.

Lady Charlotte rules her family and their Gothic Irish mansion until her son becomes engaged to the beautiful, self-centered Cynthia. As the younger woman enters the Jazz Age, old family secrets and competing ambitions undermine the apparent freedom of her glittering life.

At an Irish country house, two sisters pursue romances across the boundaries of class and politics. One secretly loves their nurse’s son, a Sinn Fein member, while British officers attend social gatherings that cannot insulate the household from approaching upheaval.

Angel expects to resume directing her children’s lives after the war, but her son returns with an American widow and her daughter pursues an independent romance. As even her niece resists control, the formidable hostess confronts rebellion within her own family.

After a death leaves an aristocratic Irish household nearly penniless, its younger generation opens the estate to paying guests. The newcomers disrupt established habits, while a relative’s insistence that valuable rubies are hidden somewhere offers another possible rescue from ruin.

Aroon St Charles believes impeccable manners can contain the disorder surrounding her declining Anglo-Irish family. Behind the routines of their country house, money troubles, jealousy and frustrated desire expose the weaknesses that their strict codes of behavior cannot conceal.

Four elderly siblings cling to old grievances and memories in their decaying Irish mansion. The arrival of a blind cousin from Vienna unsettles their isolated routines, reviving long-suppressed desires and exposing betrayals that continue to shape their lives.

Molly Keane gathers traditional English recipes across the family table, from soups, stews, sandwiches, and omelets to meat and fish dishes. Puddings, cakes, and biscuits round out a collection centered on familiar food for children and households.

After her mother shatters the apparent harmony of their Irish estate, young Nicandra responds to uncertainty by lavishing kindness on others. Growing up and marrying, she discovers that generosity and good manners cannot prevent misunderstanding or the decline around her.