Patrick Melrose Novels Collection by Edward St Aubyn - Fiction - 5 Book Paperback Set

Titles in This Set. Never Mind. Bad News. Some Hope. Mother's Milk. At Last. Details. Condition: New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781509818204. Publisher: Picador. Age Range: Adult. Overview. The Patrick Melrose Novels Collection brings together all five of Edward St Aubyn's celebrated novels in one brand new paperback set. Following Patrick Melrose from a traumatic childhood through addiction, grief and eventual recovery, this darkly comic, savagely witty cycle has been hailed as one of the great achievements of contemporary British fiction. Perfect for literary fiction lovers, book clubs and fans of the acclaimed television adaptation.. About the Books. Beginning with Never Mind, readers meet five-year-old Patrick Melrose at his family's house in the south of France, where a single devastating afternoon shatters his childhood innocence. Bad News finds Patrick at twenty-two, spiralling through addiction in New York as he collects his father's ashes. Some Hope sharpens St Aubyn's satirical eye on the English upper classes as Patrick begins, tentatively, to reckon with his past. Mother's Milk shifts focus to Patrick as an adult, a husband and father, wrestling with inheritance, marriage and the pull of old wounds. Finally, At Last brings the cycle to its close on the day of his mother's funeral, offering a hard-won, unsentimental sense of resolution. Written in prose that is by turns caustic, tender and mordantly funny, St Aubyn's five novels form a single unbroken portrait of p...