Quotes About Molly Keane

The nursery maid is pouring paraffin on a sulky nursery fire.

Reading? Well, stop it. Come and dry the dogs with me … did

Rabbit in Keane's world is a food more suitable for the lower echelons of society (and children: 'the cook sent up [to the nursery] whatever came easiest, mostly rabbit stews,' Aroon notes). It is available to all from the fields; it is not procured from butchers, sanitised and billed-for.