First published 2019
Patrick Melrose stands among family members, relatives, and enemies gathered to bid farewell to his mother. He wonders whether this orphaned existence will finally deliver the liberty he has always imagined. The burial ceremony ends, but one final family gathering remains. This meeting brims with social sensitivities and fears. Between alternating silence and noise, Patrick begins sensing something new. A different current emerges. A fresh possibility of salvation takes shape. Edward St. Aubyn crafts this semi-autobiographical conclusion to his award-winning series, which became a television adaptation. The novels span from the 1960s through Patrick's traumatic childhood, his troubled youth in 1980s New York, and his mature years in 2000s England. They paint a generational portrait through refined style, irony, and human sensitivity. The Melrose books operate simultaneously as epic and intimate narratives, surprising yet witty.
Genres: literary-fiction, contemporary, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, redemption
Setting: England, New York
Period: 1960s, 1980s, 2000s
200 pages · Paperback · Can Yayınları
Content warnings: abuse, mental-illness