Some Hope

From Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, through the savageries of a childhood with a tyrannical father and an alcoholic mother to a young adulthood fraught with drug addiction, we follow Patrick Melrose’s search for redemption amidst a crowd of glittering social dragonflies whose vapidity is the subject of his most stinging and memorable barbs. A story of abuse, addiction and recovery, the trilogy is a haunting yet hilarious depiction of a journey to and from the furthest limits of the human experience. Ultimately, Some Hope offers what the title suggests – a powerfully satisfying conclusion and the reconciliation between the quest for forgiveness and redemption, marking St Aubyn as a truly important literary discovery, one of the most original, intelligent and acerbically witty voices of our time.

`Our purest living prose stylist’ Guardian

`This is beautifully written novel . . . whose harrowing but fiercely funny portrait of addiction is the best I’ve ever read’ Time Out

`Tantalizing . . . A memorable tour de force’ New York Times Book Review

`St Aubyn can write dialogue as amusing as Waugh’s and narrative even more deft than Graham Greene’s’ Edmund White

`Mordant, acute, and ultimately deeply moving, this trilogy establishes him as one of the pre-eminent English writers of his generation’ Will Self

Title - Some Hope

Edition -

Author - Edward St Aubyn

ISBN 13 - 9780330435888

Imprint - Picador

Publisher - Pan Macmillan

Date Published - 06/04/2007

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 131 x 197 x 30mm

Weight - 376 g

Languages - English