‘I’ve loved Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now’
David Nicholls
‘A humane meditation on lives blighted by the sins of the previous generation. St Aubyn remains among the cream of British novelists’
Sunday Times
‘The sharpest and best series since Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time. St Aubyn dances on the thin ice of modern upper-class manners, the pain of displaced emotions and the hope of happiness’
Saga Magazine
‘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 one’
Maggie O’Farrell
BAD NEWS
EDWARD ST AUBYN was born in London in 1960. His superbly acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope (previously published collectively as the Some Hope trilogy), Mother’s Milk (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006) and At Last. He is also the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge.
Also by Edward St Aubyn
The Patrick Melrose novels
NEVER MIND
SOME HOPE
MOTHER’S MILK
AT LAST
ON THE EDGE
A CLUE TO THE EXIT
Copyright page
First published 1992 by William Heinemann
First published in paperback 1998 as part of The Patrick Melrose Trilogy by Vintage
First published by Picador in paperback 2007 as part of Some Hope: A Trilogy
This electronic edition published 2012 by Picador
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ISBN 978-1-4472-2382-5
Copyright © Edward St Aubyn 1992, 1998
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
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