Synopsis
‘Our purest living prose stylist’ The Guardian
‘Tantalizing . . . A memorable tour de force’ The New York Times Book Review
Some Hope is the third in Edward St Aubyn’s semi-autobiographical series, The Patrick Melrose novels.
Patrick Melrose, cleaned-up and world-weary, is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside. Amid a crowd of flitting social dragonflies, he...
Details
12 June 2025224 pages
9781035063574Imprint: Picador
Reviews
‘Humor, 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
‘A memorable tour de force’ New York Times Book Review
‘I’ve loved Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now’ David Nicholls
‘St Aubyn’s Melrose series slices and dices morality with prose so chiselled and a narrative so intense that the hairs on the back of your neck stand up’ Geordie Greig, Evening Standard
