Edward St Aubyn Patrick Melrose Novels 5 Books Collection Pack Set RRP: £ (Mothers Milk, Never Mind, Bad News, At Last, Some Hope) Edward St. Aubyn out of 5 stars /5(89). · Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. 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. · Edward St Aubyn himself had a heroin addiction, and I do not doubt the veracity of his descriptions. But still, it brings me no pleasure to read about the intricacies of needlework. Unlike Never Mind, which was funny and sad equally, Bad News is rather too sad to be funny, most of the time.
His mother claimed to know nothing of the abuse when he told her decades later. St Aubyn was a drug addict from the age of 16 to This phase is charted in his remarkable second novel, Bad News. Editions for Bad News: (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Kindle Edition published in ), (Paperback. Edward St Aubyn was born in in London, England, into an upper-class family. He is the son of Roger Geoffrey St Aubyn (), a former soldier and a surgeon, and his second wife, Lorna Mackintosh (). On his paternal side, he is a great-great grandson of Sir Edward St Aubyn, 1st Baronet, and great-nephew of The 1st Baron St.
Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with the Patrick Melrose Novels. Now you can read all five novels in one volume: Never Mind, Bad News, Mother's Milk, Some Hope, and At Last. By turns harrowing and hilarious, this ambitious novel cycle dissects the English upper class. As in the first installment, author Edward St. Aubyn pares back the extraneous: a single day was sufficient to explain the horror that was his early life. Not much more time (48 hours) is required to searingly chronicle the decline and the dissipation of a life whose only norm is abnormality. From abuse to addiction, the second novel, Bad News opens as the twenty-two-year-old Patrick sets off to collect his father's ashes from New York, where he will spend a drug-crazed twenty-four hours. And back in England, the third novel, Some Hope, offers a sober and clean Patrick the possibility of recovery.
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