Patrick Melrose Volume 1

The Melrose sequence is now clearly one of the major achievements of contemporary British fiction. Stingingly well-written and exhilaratingly funnyDavid Sexton, Evening Standard

Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generationAlan Hollinghurst

St Aubyn puts an entire family under a microscope, laying bare all its painful, unavoidable complexities. At once epic and intimate, appalling and comic, the novels are masterpieces, each and every oneMaggie O’Farrell

St Aubyn’s prose has an easy charm that masks a ferocious, searching intellect. One of the finest writers of his generationThe Times