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

3.0

Robert is the exceedingly precocious child of a once wealthy British family. After narrating his own birth, we are introduced to the rest of his family, his attachment parenting mother who has forsaken her husband for her children and his father, who feels injured by both his wife and mother and their inability to notice how important he is. As the father gets more and more sozzled, his wit gets more acerbic, and we realise that all their behavior stems from a reaction to their own mothers and the care they received growing up. However nobody is particularly sympathetic and the whole thing is a little strained aside from some snarky but amusing observations.