A review by erickibler4
Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn

4.0

This novel, like the preceding ones in the series, concerns a family of very rich people whining about not being fabulously rich, since the matriarch of the family has given away the family home in the south of France to a charitable foundation. Patrick Melrose (a stand-in for the author) is such a man-baby he'd be completely annoying if he wasn't so witty and self-aware. St. Aubyn is certainly honest about his feelings and failings, if this series is as autobiographical as it claims to be.

St. Aubyn also writes perceptively from the viewpoints of his other family members, and has a real flair for catching the inner lives of children.

The novel detours near the end into the subject of assisted suicide, and does so frankly, compassionately, and with humor.