Patrick Melrose Volume 2
05 April 2018
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Patrick Melrose Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyn's BAFTA award-winning Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic Patrick.
Benedict Cumberbatch awarded the BAFTA for Best Actor in 2019 for his portrayal of Patrick Melrose.
The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and...
Details
05 April 2018
564 pages
9781509897698
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The Melrose sequence is now clearly one of the major achievements of contemporary British fiction. Stingingly well-written and exhilaratingly funnyDavid Sexton, Evening Standard
Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generationAlan Hollinghurst
St Aubyn puts an entire family under a microscope, laying bare all its painful, unavoidable complexities. At once epic and intimate, appalling and comic, the novels are masterpieces, each and every oneMaggie O’Farrell
St Aubyn’s prose has an easy charm that masks a ferocious, searching intellect. One of the finest writers of his generationThe Times