num_pages: 279
description: The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife consumed by motherhood, his mother consumed by a New Age foundation, and his five-year-old son Robert understanding far more than he ought.Showcasing Edward St Aubyn's ability to combine the most excruciating emotional pain with the driest comedy, "Mother's Milk "is a dazzling exploration of the troubled allegiances between parents and children, husbands and wives. Acerbically witty, disarmingly tender, it goes to the core of a family trapped in the remains of its ever-present past.
language: English
title: Mother's Milk
titlecomplete: Mother's Milk (Patrick Melrose #4)
genres: Fiction, Family, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, 21st Century, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 5967
series: Patrick Melrose,  خماسية باتريك ميلروز
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Prix Femina
category: Étranger
publisher: Picador