Mothers Milk

Winner of the 2006 South Bank Literature Award the Once Illustrious, Once Wealthy Melroses Are in Peril. Caught in the Wreckage of Broken Promises, Child-Rearing, Adultery and Assisted Suicide, Patrick Finds His Wife Consumed by Motherhood, His Mother Consumed by a New Age Foundation, and His Five-Year-Old Son Robert Understanding Far More Than He Ought. Showcasing Edward St Aubyn's Ability to Combine the Most Excruciating Emotional Pain With the Driest Comedy, Mother's Milk is a Dazzling Exploration of the Troubled Allegiances Between Parents and Children, Husbands and Wives. Acerbically Witty, Disarmingly Tender, It Goes to the Core of a Family Trapped in the Remains of Its Ever-Present Past. 'So Good - so Fantastically Well-Written, Profound and Humane ...It is Heart-Stopping' Observer 'The Bravura Quality of St Aubyn's Performance is Irresistible' Sunday Telegraph 'Wonderful Caustic Wit ...Polished yet Profound, It's Even Better Than His Previous Work, and That's Saying Something'