Synopsis
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Winner of the South Bank Literature Award
‘So good – so fantastically well-written, profound and humane . . . it is heart-stopping’ Observer
The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught up in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife Mary consumed by motherhood, his mother in thrall...
Details
10 July 2025288 pages
9781035063765Imprint: Picador
Reviews
‘So good – so fantastically well written, profound and humane . . . it is heartstopping’ Rachel Cooke, Observer
‘The Melrose sequence is now clearly one of the major achievements of contemporary British fiction’ Evening Standard
'The Melrose novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century' Alice Sebold
‘The bravura quality of St Aubyn’s performance is irresistible. Brilliant’ Sunday Telegraph
