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

Soon to be a Showtime TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner

For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an extraordinary portrait of the beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. This single volume collects the first four novelsNever Mind,Bad News,Some Hope, andMother’s Milk, a Man Booker finalistto coincide with the publication ofAt Last, the final installment of this unique novel cycle.

By turns harrowing and hilar