Mother's Milk Book

This book is the Winner of the 2006 South Bank Literature Award. The once illustrious once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught in the wreckage of broken promises child-rearing adultery and assisted suicide Patrick finds his wife consumed by motherhood his mother consumed by a New Age foundation and his five-year-old son Robert understanding far more than he ought. Showcasing Edward St Aubyn's ability to combine the most excruciating emotional pain with the driest comedy "Mother's Milk" is a dazzling exploration of the troubled allegiances between parents and children husbands and wives. Acerbically witty disarmingly tender it goes to the core of a family trapped in the remains of its ever-present past."So good - so fantastically well-written profound and humane... it is heart-stopping" - "Observer". "The bravura quality of St Aubyn's performance is irresistible" - "Sunday Telegraph". "Wonderful caustic wit... Polished yet profound it's even better than his previous work and that's saying something" - "Guardian". ""Mother's Milk" has the cerebral excitement and piercing funniness of St Aubyn at his brilliant best" - "Tatler".