“One of the most amazing reading experiences I've had in a decade. After all the suffering and torment and despair that Patrick Melrose has been through over the years, [St. Aubyn] leaves him in a very interesting place, and he does it all with his incredible examination of the sweep of time and the way our understanding of people changes over decades. All of that is done with this incredible, biting, witty, hilarious prose style, the elegant, classic English sentences that he writes and these amazing put-downs, and he's great at dissecting an entire social world with a really wicked scalpel.” —Michael Chabon, Los Angeles Times

“Remarkable...In order to understand what makes these novels so exceptional, it's better to open any one of them at random, marveling at the precise observations and glistening turns of phrase, not to mention dialogue witty enough to make our own most clever conversations sound like...well, like St. Aubyn's Princess Margaret.” —Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review

“[At Last] offers up everything that one could hope for in a good novel.” —Christopher A. Gellert, The Washington Square News

“St. Aubyn's skill with characterization, his dissection of how a personality warps, settles, or improves over time, is nowhere more evident than in his aging of Patrick, whose mood and mental state are a gauge for the tone of each novel....At Last is far less dramatic than any previous Melrose book, although the humor and perfectly observed dialogue remain. Its calm is entirely suited to the wisdom Patrick Melrose has painfully, finally earned.” —Victoria Beale, The New Republic

“St. Aubyn writes with exquisite control and a brilliant comic touch....An intelligent and surprisingly hopeful novel, a fitting conclusion to one of the best fictional cycles in contemporary fiction.” —Anthony Domestico, The Boston Globe

“Piercing...Mr. St. Aubyn shares Patrick's gift for observation, and his radar for pictorial and emotional detail enables him to capture just about anything in his pointillist prose.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Delightfully packed with gross privilege, dysfunction, and savage humor.” —Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn, The Paris Review (staff pick)

“St. Aubyn's humor and elegance transform harrowing subject matter into irresistible prose.” —Maura Egan, W Magazine

“With lacerating humor and razor sharp imagery, St. Aubyn continues to work out his themes: the follies of the British upper class, the 'psychological impact of inherited wealth,' the complex dynamics between parent and child.” —Mary Ellen Quinn, Booklist

“Stunning, sparkling fiction...Deeply affecting.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

“It's tough competition for the most-underrated writer in the English language—there's plenty of neglect to go around—but if you put a Colt Commander to my head (see below) I might well say it's St. Aubyn, the chronically under-published chronicler of abuse, dysfunction, alcoholism and worse in the English upper classes. At Last is the final novel, one thinks, in his series about his alter ego, the neurotic Patrick Melrose. It's pretty much a lock to be one of the funniest, saddest, most beautiful books of the year.” —Lev Grossman, Time

“Sparkling...With the wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse, and the waspishness of Waugh, [St. Aubyn] wraps his fancy prose style around the self in extremis ('suffocated, dropped, born of raped as well as born to be raped'), situations more familiar to readers of Cooper or Burroughs.” —Zadie Smith, Harper's

“A miraculously wrought piece of art.” —Suzi Feay, The Financial Times

“St. Aubyn's technique is to crystallise emotional intensity into sentences of arctic beauty, which can be caustically witty or brutal. His novels are uncommonly well controlled, and thus their impact is all the more powerful… In At Last this crystallisation and control are on glittering display…We have reached the pinnacle of a series that has plunged into darkness and risen towards light. At Last is both resounding end and hopeful beginning.” —Philip Womack, The Telegraph

“Ferociously funny, painfully acute and exhilaratingly written. . . Brimming with witty flair, sardonic perceptiveness and literary finesse.” —Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times

“The thing that everyone loves about this man . . . is that his prose has an easy charm that masks a ferocious, searching intellect. As a sketcher of character, his wit -- whether turned against pointless members of the aristocracy or hopeless crack dealers -- is ticklingly wicked. As an analyser of broken minds and tired hearts he is as energetic, careful and creative as the perfect shrink.” —Melissa Katsoulis, The Times

Praise for The Patrick Melrose Cycle

“The Melrose novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century, written by one of the great prose stylists in England.” —Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones on the Patrick Melrose Cycle

“When I read St. Aubyn I'm floored over and over again by the warmth and intelligence and eloquence of his work....Gorgeous, golden prose.” —Lev Grossman, Time on the Patrick Melrose Cycle

“On every page of St. Aubyn's work is a sentence or a paragraph that prompts a laugh or a moment of enriched comprehension....Many of the scenes have a delicious, oysterish kind of edible comedy--they read smoothly and go down very easily, like something out of Anthony Powell.” —James Wood, The New Yorker on the Patrick Melrose Cycle

“Read as one long novel, these books form a portrait of a man that feels more alive and true than nearly any I can think of in literature. The Melrose novels have inspired me, changed me, and left me wholly dissatisfied with everything I have read since.” —Ann Patchett, The Guardian on the Patrick Melrose Cycle

“Why did it take me so long to fall in love with the brilliant novels of Edward St. Aubyn?” —Bret Easton Ellis on the Patrick Melrose Cycle

“Edward St. Aubyn's [novels] are so intoxicatingly witty that their high seriousness may not be immediately apparent. This seriousness...is intrinsic to his ferociously comic vision.” —The New York Review of Books on the Patrick Melrose Cycle

“Writing reviews you spend a lot of time typing out the sentences of other people, i.e., quoting. Usually this is dull work; with St. Aubyn, it's a joy.” —Zadie Smith, Harper's Magazine on the Patrick Melrose Cycle