num_pages: 224
description: Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his fathers ashes. Over the course of a weekend Patricks remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel he pushes body and mind to the very edge  desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past.Bad News was originally published along with Never Mind and Some Hope as part of a three book omnibus also called Some Hope.
language: English
title: Bad News
publisher: Minerva