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  • Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope
  • By: Edward St. Aubyn
  • Narrated by: Alex Jennings
  • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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Now a major Sky TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a cruel father and an alcoholic mother to an adulthood fraught with addiction, Patrick Melrose is on a mission to escape himself. 

But the drugs don’t make him forget his past, and the glittering parties offer him no redemption....

Searingly funny and deeply humane, Patrick Melrose: The Early Years contains the first three novels in the Patrick Melrose series, Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope. Also available: Patrick Melrose The Later Years, containing the final two novels in the series, Mother’s Milk and At Last.
©2018 Edward St Aubyn (P)2018 Macmillan Digital Audio
Biographical Fiction Coming of Age Family Life Literary Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Dark Humour
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Forensic dissection of the English upper class

A fascinating reflection on consciousness and class with a narrator who evokes the tortured brilliance and many voices of its (anti) hero.

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How badly can people treat each other?

Other than highlighting a relentless pursuit of how badly people can treat each other, nothing happened throughout the book. It was like listening to the longest prologue ever written and then nothing happened.

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