Bad News
03 April 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘I’ve loved Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now’ - David Nicholls
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 the aristocratic addict, Patrick.
Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New...
Details
03 April 2025256 pages
9781035063741Imprint: Picador
Reviews
I've loved Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, nowDavid Nicholls
Our purest living prose stylistThe Guardian
St Aubyn conveys the chaos of emotion, the confusion of heightened sensation, and the daunting contradictions of intellectual endeavour with a force and subtlety that have an exhilarating, almost therapeutic effectFrancis Wyndham, New York Review of Books
The Melrose novels are remarkable – ferociously funny, painfully acute and exhilaratingly written. A brilliantly controlled story of a life sent out of controlPeter Kemp, Sunday Times
