Never Mind
06 February 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Winner of the Betty Trask Award, Never Mind is the first in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels.
'Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation' - Alan Hollinghurst
At his mother’s family house in the south of France, Patrick Melrose has the run of a magical garden. Bravely imaginative and self-sufficient, five-year-old Patrick encounters the volatile lives of adults...
Details
06 February 2025208 pages
9781035063543Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The Melrose sequence is now clearly one of the major achievements of contemporary British fiction. Stingingly well written and exhilaratingly funnyDavid Sexton, Evening Standard
Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generationAlan Hollinghurst
St Aubyn puts an entire family under a microscope, laying bare all its painful, unavoidable complexities. At once epic and intimate, appalling and comic, the novels are masterpieces, each and every oneMaggie O’Farrell
St Aubyn’s prose has an easy charm that masks a ferocious, searching intellect. One of the finest writers of his generationThe Times
