Book description
WINNER OF THE 2006 SOUTH BANK LITERATURE AWARD
The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught in the
wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted
suicide, Patrick finds his wife consumed by motherhood, his mother
consumed by a New Age foundation, and his five-year-old son Robert
understanding far more than he ought.
Showcasing Edward St Aubyn’s ability to combine the most excruciating
emotional pain with the driest comedy, Mother's Milk
is a dazzling exploration of the troubled allegiances between parents
and children, husbands and wives. Acerbically witty, disarmingly tender,
it goes to the core of a family trapped in the remains of its
ever-present past.
'So good - so fantastically well-written, profound and humane . . . it
is heart-stopping' Observer
'The bravura quality of St Aubyn's performance is irresistible'
Sunday Telegraph
'Wonderful caustic wit . . . Polished yet profound, it’s even better
than his previous work, and that’s saying something’ Guardian
'Mother's Milk
has the cerebral excitement and piercing funniness of St Aubyn at his
brilliant best' Tatler
Edward St. Aubyn was born in London in 1960. He is the author of the
novels A Clue to the Exit
and On the Edge
, and the trilogy Some Hope
.
