by Molly Keane, dramatised in three parts by Hugh Leonard, starring Joanna McCallum as Aroon, Hannah Gordon as Mother, Daniel Massey as Major, Judy Cornwell as Mrs Brock
Aroon, large and unlovely daughter of an Anglo-Irish family looks back from middle age to her childhood in the south of Ireland wondering why the lives of her nearest and dearest were so perplexingly unhappy. As the many memorable characters, both comic and tragic, tumble through her mind, it becomes wickedly obvious that Aroon didn't quite understand everything that she saw. Take the incident of her governess Mrs Brock...