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Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. His superbly acclaimed Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope (previously published collectively as the Some Hope trilogy), Mother's Milk (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006) and At Last. He is also the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge.

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Title:

Bad News

Series:

Patrick Melrose #2

Written by:

Edward St Aubyn 

Read by:

Alex Jennings 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

5 

Duration:

5 hours 12 minutes 

Published:

March 01 2015 

Available Date:

March 01 2015 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781509802630 

Genres:

Fiction; Contemporary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Macmillan audio 

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Bestselling author

'The Melrose novels are remarkable – ferociously funny, painfully acute and exhilaratingly written. A brilliantly controlled story of a life sent out of control.'
The Sunday Times

Bad News is a brilliant portrait of socialite Manhattan and its dark avenues, and of a hallucinatory, desperate attempt to hide from the encroaching past.

Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father’s ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick’s 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.

'Our purest living prose stylist.'
The Guardian

'Humour, pathos, razor-sharp judgement, pain, joy and everything in between. The Melrose novels are a masterwork for the 21st century, by one of our greatest prose stylists.'
Alice Sebold

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