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  • Mother's Milk

  • A Patrick Melrose Novel, Book 4
  • By: Edward St. Aubyn
  • Narrated by: Alex Jennings
  • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (35 ratings)
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Summary

The fourth Patrick Melrose novel.

The once-illustrious, once-wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught up in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery, and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife Mary consumed by motherhood, his mother in thrall to a New Age foundation, and his young son Robert understanding far more than he should. But even as the family struggles against the pull of its ever-present past, a new generation brings a new tenderness, and the possibility of change.
©2006 Edward St Aubyn (P)2013 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd
Biographical Fiction Family Life Literary Fiction Dark Humour
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Brilliant

Profoundly psychoanalytic, but that is woven into entirely plausible, dreadful characters, convey a historical moment and class too. The whole Melrose series excellent, this one crowns them for virtuosity of writing and narrative arc. Fantastically well read here.

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