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Edward St. Aubyn: Never mind

Would you like to discuss english literature in english? We have two english reading groups: 1)The Afternoon Group 2) The Evening Group It is possible to join both or just one of the groups. They both discuss different books at each meeting. Please contact us if you would like the library to order the books for you. Discussion questions for the books will be sent out by e-mail before each meeting. To sign up for one of the groups or for more information, please send an e-mail to kaja.ostgaard.pettersen@deichman.no

Would you like to discuss english literature in english? We have two english reading groups: 1)The Afternoon Group 2) The Evening Group It is possible to join both or just one of the groups. They both discuss different books at each meeting. Please contact us if you would like the library to order the books for you. Discussion questions for the books will be sent out by e-mail before each meeting. To sign up for one of the groups or for more information, please send an e-mail to kaja.ostgaard.pettersen@deichman.no
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Edward St. Aubyn: Never mind (2012)

(The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk)

For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an extraordinary portrait of the beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. This single volume collects the first four novels—Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk, a Man Booker finalist—to coincide with the publication of At Last, the final installment of this unique novel cycle.

By turns harrowing and hilarious, these beautifully written novels dissect the English upper class as we follow Patrick Melrose’s story from child abuse to heroin addiction and recovery. Never Mind, the first novel, unfolds over a day and an evening at the family’s chateaux in the south of France, where the sadistic and terrifying figure of David Melrose dominates the lives of his five-year-old son, Patrick, and his rich and unhappy American mother, Eleanor.

From abuse to addiction, the second novel, Bad News opens as the twenty-two-year-old Patrick sets off to collect his father’s ashes from New York, where he will spend a drug-crazed twenty-four hours. And back in England, the third novel, Some Hope, offers a sober and clean Patrick the possibility of recovery. The fourth novel, the Booker-shortlisted Mother’s Milk, returns to the family chateau, where Patrick, now married and a father himself, struggles with child rearing, adultery, his mother’s desire for assisted suicide, and the loss of the family home to a New Age foundation.

Edward St. Aubyn offers a window into a world of utter decadence, amorality, greed, snobbery, and cruelty—welcome to the declining British aristocracy.

(From LitLovers.com)