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Edward St. Aubyn

“[An] elegant and witty satire on the dissatisfactions of family life . . . told in a fresh, acerbic way.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Now a five-part Showtime series Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner

Man Booker–shortlisted Mother’s Milk, the fourth installment in Edward St. Aubyn’s wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose Cycle, sees Patrick as a lawyer, married, with a five-year-old child and another on the way.

The novel shifts points of view from Patrick—furious over his mother’s decision to sell their mansion in the South of France to a ridiculous New Age hippie—to Patrick’s wife, overburdened by motherhood, to Patrick’s mother, growing senile and despondent, and even to Patrick’s young son Robert, who reflects with hilarious and disturbing clarity on the moments of his birth.

“Vividly captures how the family members’ roles shift with the birth of the second son and the deterioration of Patrick’s mother.” —The New Yorker

Praise for the Patrick Melrose series

“A masterwork for the twenty-first century.” —Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

“Gorgeous, golden prose.” —Lev Grossman, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Magician

“On every page of St. Aubyn’s work is a sentence or a paragraph that prompts a laugh, or a moment of enriched comprehension.” —James Wood, The New Yorker

“A portrait of a man that feels more alive and true than nearly any I can think of in literature.” —Ann Patchett, The Guardian

“Brilliant.” —Bret Easton Ellis

“Intoxicatingly witty.” —The New York Review of Books

Picador

The Patrick Melrose Novels

Mother's Milk

Edward St Aubyn

Bad News is the second novel in Edward St Aubuyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. This audiobook edition is read by stage and screen actor Alex Jennings.

Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father’s ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick’s remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan, haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel, he pushes body and mind to the very edge – desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past.

Alex Jennings

Macmillan Digital Audio

Bad News

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