Book description
'So good - so fantastically well-written, profound and humane . . . it
is heart-stopping' Observer First published in 2006, Mother's Milk is
the fourth novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series. It
was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year and won the 2007 Prix
Femina Étranger and the 2007 South Bank Literature Award. The once
illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Patrick Melrose, caught
in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing and adultery, can only
look on as his wife is consumed by motherhood and his mother is consumed
by a New Age foundation. Only Patrick's five-year-old son Robert
understands, and far more than he ought. Acerbically witty, disarmingly
tender, Mother's Milk goes to the core of a family trapped in the
remains of its ever-present past. In 2012 Picador celebrates its 40th
anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning and
bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy,
Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding, Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst.
Years later, Picador continue to bring readers the very best
contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe.
Edward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. His superbly acclaimed
Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some
Hope (previously published collectively as the Some Hope
trilogy), Mother's Milk and At Last. He is also the
author of the novels A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge.
