The Patrick Melrose Novels

Basis for the Showtime mini-series starring Benedict Cumberbatch

By turns harrowing and hilarious, the ambitious Patrick Melrose Novels dissect the English upper class. Edward St. Aubyn offers his reader the often darkly funny and self-loathing world of privilege as we follow Patrick Melrose’s story of abuse, addiction, and recovery from the age of five into early middle age.

“St. Aubyn writes with exquisite control and a brilliant comic touch…An intelligent and surprisingly hopeful novel…one of the best fictional cycles in contemporary fiction.” —The Boston Globe (on At Last)