Description
| Product ID: | 9781509897681 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Patrick Melrose Volume 1 |
| Subtitle: | Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope |
| Authors: | Author: Edward St Aubyn |
| Page Count: | 464 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), France |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Patrick Melrose Volume 1 is a story of abuse, addiction and recovery. It introduces a character like no other, on a journey to the furthest limits of human experience. <p><b><i>Patrick Melrose Volume 1</i> contains the first three novels in Edward St Aubyn's BAFTA award-winning and Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic Patrick.</b><br><br><b>Benedict Cumberbatch awarded the BAFTA for Best Actor 2019 for his portrayal of Patrick Melrose.<br></b><br>Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a cruel father and an alcoholic mother to an adulthood fraught with addiction, Patrick Melrose is on a mission to escape himself. <br><br>But the drugs don’t make him forget his past, and the glittering parties offer him no redemption . . . <br><br>Searingly funny and deeply humane, <i>Patrick Melrose Volume 1</i> contains the first three novels in the Patrick Melrose series, <i>Never Mind</i>, <i>Bad News</i> and <i>Some Hope</i>. <i>Patrick Melrose Volume 2</i> is also available, containing the final two novels in the series, <i>Mother’s Milk</i> and <i>At Last</i>.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-05-03 |
