Mother's Milk: Patrick Melrose Novels # 4

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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.

Reviews

'So good so fantastically well written, profound and humane ... it is heartstopping' - Rachel Cooke, Observer '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 Times