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THE FOURTH PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. 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. But even as the family struggles against the pull of its ever-present past, a new generation brings a new tenderness, and the possibility of change. 'The bravura quality of St Aubyn's performance is irresistible. Brilliant' Sunday Telegraph 'Mother's Milk has the cerebral excitement and piercing funniness of St Aubyn at his brilliant best' Tatler 'The Melrose sequence is now clearly one of the major achievements of contemporary British fiction' Evening Standard 'St Aubyn is a staggeringly good prose stylist and evidently has a big and open heart' The TimesRead More

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  • Foyles

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mother's Milk is the fourth of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. 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. But even as the family struggles against the pull of its ever-present past, a new generation brings a new tenderness, and the possibility of change.

  • BookDepository

    Mother's Milk : Paperback : Pan Macmillan : 9781447203025 : 144720302X : 20 Jun 2012 : The penultimate novel in the Patrick Melrose novels, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

  • Waterstones

    'The Melrose novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century' Alice Sebold

  • 144720302X
  • 9781447203025
  • Edward St Aubyn
  • 12 April 2012
  • Picador
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
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