Patrick Melrose Volume 2
03 May 2018
Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
Read by actor Alex Jennings, Patrick Melrose Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.
The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and father, is trying to gather together the pieces of his life. Caught up...
Details
03 May 2018
790 minutes
Alex Jennings
9781509899197
Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
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