The Patrick Melrose Novels - Tapa dura

Humour, pathos, razor-sharp judgement, pain, joy and everything in between. The Melrose novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century, by one of our greatest prose stylists -- Alice Sebold At once epic and intimate, appalling and comic, the Melrose novels are masterpieces -- Maggie O'Farrell The wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse, the waspishness of Waugh. A joy -- Zadie Smith I've loved Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now -- David Nicholls Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation -- Alan Hollinghurst

Filmed for Sky Atlantic, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Patrick Melrose Novels is the complete collection of Edward St Aubyn's award-winning novels of childhood trauma and aristocratic decandence. This Picador Classics edition features an introduction by Zadie Smith. Patrick slid back down in his chair and sprawled in front of the view. He noticed how his tears cooled as they ran down his cheeks. Washed eyes and a tired and empty feeling. Was that what other people meant by peaceful? Collected here together in a single volume are the complete Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn, Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, and At Last. Acclaimed for their searing wit and their deep humanity, this magnificent cycle of novels - in which Patrick Melrose battles to survive the savageries of his childhood and lead a self-determined life - is one of the major achievements in English fiction.