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Mother's Milk

Edward St. Aubyn

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Mother's Milk

by Edward St. Aubyn
Mother's Milk
Mother's Milk

Dysfunctional family saga, darkly humorous introspection.

Mother's Milk might just resonate with you if you're into examining the intricacies of family relationships and the complexities of adulthood. Edward St. Aubyn is known for his wit and painfully sharp dissection of character psyche. If you appreciate a novel that doesn't shy away from the messier sides of human nature, set against a backdrop of privilege and emotional turmoil, you'll find this book both cutting and curiously cathartic.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2006)
  • Prix Femina for Étranger (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Mother's Milk

by Edward St. Aubyn
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ISBN: 9781447202790
Author: Edward St. Aubyn
Publisher: Picador Paperbacks
Date of Publication: 2012-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.78
(rated by 6378 readers)

Description

So good--so fantastically well-written, profound and humane...it is heart-stopping' Observer First published in 2006, Mother's Milk is the fourth novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year and won the 2006 South Bank Literature Award and the 2007 Prix Femina Étranger. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melrose are in peril. Caught up 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. Acerbically witty, disarmingly tender, Mother's Milk goes to the core of a family trapped in the remains of its ever-present past.
 

Dysfunctional family saga, darkly humorous introspection.

Mother's Milk might just resonate with you if you're into examining the intricacies of family relationships and the complexities of adulthood. Edward St. Aubyn is known for his wit and painfully sharp dissection of character psyche. If you appreciate a novel that doesn't shy away from the messier sides of human nature, set against a backdrop of privilege and emotional turmoil, you'll find this book both cutting and curiously cathartic.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2006)
  • Prix Femina for Étranger (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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