<P><B>An elegant, witty black comedy, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, is given a striking new cover by design firm Eley Kishimoto</B></P><P><I>"I do know how to behave—believe me, because I know. I have always known . . . "</I> </P><P>Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy, and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behavior. But crumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires.