About the book: year / “The series of novels about Patrick Melrose was for me the most amazing reading experience of the last decade,” wrote Michael Chabon. He was echoed by such venerable writers as David Nichols (“Edward St. Aubyn’s novels about Patrick Melrose are a complete delight from beginning to end. Read by everyone, immediately!”), Alan Hollinghurst (“Edward St. Aubyn is probably the most brilliant British author of his generation"), Alice Sebold (“Edward St. Aubyn is one of our greatest stylists, and his novels about Patrick Melrose are a masterpiece of 21st century literature”) and many others. The main character, whose life is largely based on the biography of the author himself, is trying to overcome the consequences of childhood trauma; he has already tamed his personal demons, acquired a beautiful wife, two children and a legal practice - but when he spends the summer at the family villa in Provence, his mother gives him a not very pleasant surprise... Based on the shortlisted novel "Mother's Milk" Booker Prize, a full-length film was shot in 2012 (directed by Gerald Fox, starring Jack Davenport, Adrian Dunbar, Diana Quick), and one of the main television events of 2018 was the release of the series "Patrick Melrose", based on the entire cycle of novels by St. Aubin and already nominated for an Emmy Award. The script for the series was written by David Nichols, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hugo Weaving, Holly Granger. For the first time in Russian.