Mother's Milk: A Novel - Softcover

‘So good – so fantastically well written, profound and humane . . . it is heartstopping’ Rachel Cooke, Observer

‘The Melrose sequence is now clearly one of the major achievements of contemporary British fiction’ Evening Standard

'The Melrose novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century' Alice Sebold

‘The bravura quality of St Aubyn’s performance is irresistible. Brilliant’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Mother’s Milk has the cerebral excitement and piercing funniness of St Aubyn at his brilliant best’ Tatler

‘St Aubyn is a staggeringly good prose stylist and evidently has a big and open heart’ The Times

‘From the very first lines I was completely hooked . . . By turns witty, moving and an intense social comedy, I wept at the end but wouldn’t dream of giving away the totally unexpected reason’ Antonia Fraser, Sunday Telegraph

‘Blackly comic, superbly written fiction . . . His style is crisp and light; his similes exhilarating in their accuracy . . . St Aubyn writes with luminous tenderness of Patrick’s love for his sons’ Caroline Moore, Sunday Telegraph

‘I’ve loved Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now’ David Nicholls

‘Wonderful caustic wit . . . Perhaps the very sprightliness of the prose – its lapidary concision and moral certitude – represents the cure for which the characters yearn. So much good writing is in itself a form of health’ Edmund White, Guardian

Winner of the South Bank Show Literature Award