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Patrick Melrose is a drama television miniseries starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. The show is based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Edward St Aubyn.
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- Never Mind. by Edward St Aubyn. Book one in the series. At his mother’s family house in the south of France, five-year-old Patrick Melrose has the run of a magical garden.
- Bad News. by Edward St Aubyn. Book two in the series. Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father’s ashes.
- Some Hope. by Edward St Aubyn. Book three in the series. Patrick Melrose, cleaned-up and world-weary, is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside.
- Mother's Milk. by Edward St Aubyn. Book four in the series. Caught up in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife Mary consumed by motherhood, his mother in thrall to a New Age foundation, and his young son Robert understanding far more than he should.
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Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1), Bad News (Patrick Melrose, #2), Some Hope (Patrick Melrose, #3), Mother's Milk (Patrick Melrose #4), At Last (Patrick ...
Spanning out over a total of five novels, the Patrick Melrose series as a whole is one complete story, looking at the dysfunctional life of its lead protagonist, as he makes sense of his troubled upbringing and existence.
Apr 12, 2021 · Who wrote the Patrick Melrose novels? Author and journalist Edward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. His superbly acclaimed Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006) and At Last. He is also the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge and Lost for Words.
About this Series. Basis for the Showtime mini-series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. By turns harrowing and hilarious, the ambitious Patrick Melrose Novels dissect the English upper class. Edward St. Aubyn offers his reader the often darkly funny and self-loathing world of privilege as we follow Patrick Melrose’s story of abuse, addiction ...
