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Mother's Milk

By Edward St. Aubyn

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| Paperback | 9780330435918

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This book is the 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 foundatiContinue

This book is the 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.

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  • The sins of the father

    Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn Picador £12.99, pp279 Before I meet Edward St Aubyn, I swot up on him. Here are a few of the things that I read: that he wears too-tight tweed suits and green velvet smoking jackets; that he is facetious, arrogant and ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Parental advisory

    Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn 279pp, Picador, £12.99 Mother's Milk is a sequel to Some Hope, St Aubyn's 1990s trilogy, which presents the Melrose family in all its pathetic and venomous decadence. In Some Hope, the father, David, is a doctor who a ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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