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

Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation -- Alan 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 one -- Maggie O’Farrell

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

Nothing about the plots can prepare you for the rich, acerbic comedy of St Aubyn’s world – or more surprising – its philosophical density -- Zadie Smith, Harpers

Humor, pathos, razor-sharp judgment, 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

From the very first lines I was completely hooked . . . By turns witty, moving and an intense social comedy, I wept at the end but wouldn’t dream of giving away the totally unexpected reason -- Antonia Fraser, The Sunday Telegraph

Blackly comic, superbly written fiction . . . His style is crisp and light; his similes exhilarating in their accuracy . . . St Aubyn writes with luminous tenderness of Patrick’s love for his sons -- Caroline Moore, The Sunday Telegraph

I’ve loved Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now -- David Nicholls

Wonderful caustic wit . . . Perhaps the very sprightliness of the prose – its lapidary concision and moral certitude – represents the cure for which the characters yearn. So much good writing is in itself a form of health -- Edmund White, The Guardian

Clearly one of the major achievements of contemporary British fiction. Stingingly well written and exhilaratingly funny -- David Sexton, Evening Standard

Beautifully written, excruciatingly funny and also very tragic -- Mariella Frostrup, Sky Magazine

The act of investigative self-repair has all along been the underlying project of these extraordinary novels. It is the source of their urgent emotional intensity, and the determining principle of their construction. For all their brilliant social satire, they are closer to the tight, ritualistic poetic drama of another era than the expansive comic fiction of our own . . . A terrifying, spectacularly entertaining saga -- James Lasdun, The Guardian

His prose has an easy charm that masks a ferocious, searching intellect. As a sketcher of character, his wit - whether turned against pointless members of the aristocracy or hopeless crack dealers - is ticklingly wicked. As an analyser of broken minds and tired hearts he is as energetic, careful and creative as the perfect shrink. And when it comes to spinning a good yarn, whether over the grand scale or within a single page of anecdote, he has a natural talent for keeping you on the edge of your seat -- Melissa Katsoulis, The Times

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