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Man 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.
"The Melrose novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century, written by one of the great prose stylists in England."
Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones on the Patrick Melrose Cycle
"When I read St. Aubyn I'm floored over and over again by the warmth and intelligence and eloquence of his work....Gorgeous, golden prose."
Lev Grossman, Time on the Patrick Melrose Cycle
"On every page of St. Aubyn's work is a sentence or a paragraph that prompts a laugh or a moment of enriched comprehension....Many of the scenes have a delicious, oysterish kind of edible comedy--they read smoothly and go down very easily, like something out of Anthony Powell."
James Wood, The New Yorker on the Patrick Melrose Cycle
