Mother's Milk: Book Four of the Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn (9781466828186)

Description - Mother's Milk: Book Four of the Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn

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.

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