Mother's Milk (novel)

Mother's Milk is a novel written by Edward St. Aubyn.[1][2] The 279-page book is a sequel to the trilogy called Some Hope that St. Aubyn wrote in the 1990s.[3] Mother's Milk was written in 2006 and was short listed for the Booker Prize that year.[4] Mother's Milk was republished in a single volume with Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope in 2012. Mother's Milk, and the other three books, are based on the author's life growing up in an upper-class English family and dealing with issues such as death, alcoholism, heroin addiction, marriage and more.[5]

In 2012, the book was adapted into a film directed by Gerry Fox and co-written by St. Aubyn. The film starred Jack Davenport, Adrian Dunbar, Diana Quick, and Margaret Tyzack.

Plot

The story follows Patrick Melrose through his forties. The novel explores themes of maternal love, parenthood, nostalgia, and infancy. It follows Patrick as he and his wife Mary are consumed by anxieties about repeating the mistakes of their own parents in raising their sons while Patrick deals with his mother Eleanor who, suffering from Alzheimer's, wants to give away the family's remaining fortune to an Irish spiritual guru named Seamus, cheating him of what he believes to be his well deserved inheritance.

References
  1. White, Edmund (14 January 2006). "Review: Mother's milk by Edward St Aubyn". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  2. Arditti, Michael (20 January 2006). "Mother's Milk, by Edward St Aubyn". The Independent. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  3. McGrath, Charles (13 November 2005). "'Mother's Milk': The Last Marxists". The New York Times. p. 12. ISSN 0362-4331.
  4. "Mother's Milk | The Man Booker Prizes". themanbookerprize.com. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  5. Kakutani, Michiko (21 February 2012). "Edward St. Aubyn's 'At Last,' an Autobiographical Novel". The New York Times. p. C1.
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