Edward St. Aubyn: The Patrick Melrose Novels

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Extraordinary (Sam Mendes)

If something has kept you from reading this great novel in five parts, let it keep you no more . . . the experience of St Aubyn is indelible (Jonathan Franzen)

I've loved Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now (David Nicholls)

At once epic and intimate, appalling and comic, the Melrose novels are masterpieces (Maggie O'Farrell)

Why did it take me so long to fall in love with the brilliant novels of Edward St Aubyn (Brett Easton Ellis)

Humour, pathos, razor-sharp judgement, pain, joy and everything in between. The Melrose novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century, by one of our greatest prose stylists (Alice Sebold)

Edward St Aubyn is among the handful of the current giants of English fiction (Edmund White)

Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation (Alan Hollinghurst)

The wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse, the waspishness of Waugh. A joy (Zadie Smith)

St Aubyn conveys the chaos of emotion,