A review by bonniesykes84
The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn

5.0

Edward St. Aubyn is a beautiful writer, his stories so tragically woven. Reading the Patrick Melrose Novels was confronting. A story of a lonely man going about his lonely life and all the horrible people he meets along the way. Patrick Melrose tells a firsthand account of upper class superiority, addiction, fatherhood, friendship, and rivalry. Turning a story of sadness and loss into something humorous and triumphant. The complete Patrick Melrose novels made me laugh, whilst simultaneously making me feel guilty for doing so. Perhaps my favourite thing about the Melrose novels was the simplicity of their ending. Without expelling too much of the novels events, the Patrick Melrose series was perhaps the first novel I read where the main character finds no happy ending. For Patrick, there is no gold palace, no reconciliation, no apologies or long winded love letters. The Melrose novels end as they should. Simply. 'He was going to change his mind, after all that's what Thomas said it was for'