{"product_id":"the-patrick-melrose-novelsbooks","title":"The Patrick Melrose Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn\u003ci\u003e Atlantic Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The Melrose Novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century, written by one of the great prose stylists in England.\" —Alice Sebold, author of\u003ci\u003eThe Lovely Bones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSoon to be a Showtime TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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. This single volume collects the first four novels—\u003ci\u003eNever Mind\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003eBad News\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003eSome Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003eMother's Milk\u003c\/i\u003e, a Man Booker finalist—to coincide with the publication of\u003ci\u003eAt Last\u003c\/i\u003e, the final installment of this unique novel cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns harrowing and hilarious, these beautifully written novels dissect the English upper class as we follow Patrick Melrose's story from child abuse to heroin addiction and recovery.\u003ci\u003eNever Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, the first novel, unfolds over a day and an evening at the family's chateaux in the south of France, where the sadistic and terrifying figure of David Melrose dominates the lives of his five-year-old son, Patrick, and his rich and unhappy American mother, Eleanor. From abuse to addiction, the second novel,\u003ci\u003eBad News\u003c\/i\u003e opens as the twenty-two-year-old Patrick sets off to collect his father's ashes from New York, where he will spend a drug-crazed twenty-four hours. And back in England, the third novel,\u003ci\u003eSome Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, offers a sober and clean Patrick the possibility of recovery. The fourth novel, the Booker-shortlisted\u003ci\u003eMother's Milk\u003c\/i\u003e, returns to the family chateau, where Patrick, now married and a father himself, struggles with child rearing, adultery, his mother's desire for assisted suicide, and the loss of the family home to a New Age foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward St. Aubyn offers a window into a world of utter decadence, amorality, greed, snobbery, and cruelty—welcome to the declining British aristocracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Aubyn, Edward","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":43994905870560,"sku":"","price":13.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0e87953f-515a-4dce-940b-1b12ef3fd74a.jpg?v=1683048846","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-patrick-melrose-novelsbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}