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 with care. His father David
rules with considered cruelty and Eleanor his mother has retreated into drink. They are
expecting guests for dinner. But this afternoon is unlike the chain of summer days before and
the shocking events that precede the guests' arrival tear Patrick's world in two. Never Mind
was originally published along with Bad News and Some Hope as part of a three book omnibus
also called Some Hope . 'At once epic and intimate appalling and comic the novels are
masterpieces each and every one' - Maggie O'Farrell author of The Marriage Portrait
Adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict
Patrick. Part of the Picador Collection a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
