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Jan 1, 2012 · This volume contains the first four Patrick Melrose novels (Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk), collected and reprinted to accompany the 2012 publication of Edward St. Aubyn’s At Last, the fifth and final Patrick Melrose novel. All five books together come to less than a thousand pages; reading them as one long novel works ...
Patrick Melrose series. Spouse. Nicola Shulman. . . ( m. 1987; div. 1990) . Edward St Aubyn (born 1960) is an English author and journalist. He is the author of ten novels, including notably the semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels. In 2006, Mother's Milk was shortlisted for the Booker Prize .
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The Patrick Melrose Novels. by Edward St. Aubyn. 4.06 · 8864 Ratings · 1137 Reviews · published 2012 · 50 editions. NATIONAL BESTSELLER An Atlantic Magazine Best ...
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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 ...
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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.
Jan 31, 2012 · ―Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones Soon to be a Showtime TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an extraordinary portrait of the beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege.
May 5, 2015 · This is a collection of books 1-5 of the Patrick Melrose series. I struggle to rate this series because there were so many good things about this series, I loved Patrick's sarcasm and his humor and I loved the philosophy and the depth so much of this was written in. This captured so much about humanity and life. It was lovely.
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