‘Remarkable. St Aubyn’s books are at once extremely dark and extremely funny’ Francine Prose, <i>New York Times</i>

‘The Melrose novels are remarkable – ferociously funny, painfully acute and exhilaratingly written. A brilliantly controlled story of a life sent out of control’ Peter Kemp, <i>Sunday Times</i>

‘At Last is a miraculously wrought piece of art’ Suzi Feay, <i>Financial Times</i>

‘The pinnacle of a series that has plunged into darkness and risen towards light. <i>At Last</i> is both resounding end and hopeful beginning’ Philip Womack, <i>Telegraph</i>

‘Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation’ Alan Hollinghurst

‘Humor, pathos, razor-sharp judgement, pain, joy and everything in between. The Melrose novels are a masterwork for the 21st century, by one of our greatest prose stylists’ Alice Sebold

‘From the very first lines I was completely hooked . . . By turns witty, moving and an intense social comedy, I wept at the end but wouldn’t dream of giving away the totally unexpected reason’ Antonia Fraser, <i>Sunday Telegraph</i>

‘I’ve loved Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now’ David Nicholls

‘Wonderful caustic wit . . . Perhaps the very sprightliness of the prose – its lapidary concision and moral certitude – represents the cure for which the characters yearn. So much good writing is in itself a form of health’ Edmund White, <i>Guardian</i>

‘Clearly one of the major achievements of contemporary British fiction. Stingingly well-written and exhilaratingly funny’ David Sexton, <i>Evening Standard</i>

‘Beautifully written, excruciatingly funny and also very tragic’ Mariella Frostrup, <i>Sky Magazine</i>

‘His prose has an easy charm that masks a ferocious, searching intellect. As a sketcher of character, his wit — whether turned against pointless members of the aristocracy or hopeless crack dealers — is ticklingly wicked. As an analyser of broken minds and tired hearts he is as energetic, careful and creative as the perfect shrink. And when it comes to spinning a good yarn, whether over the grand scale or within a single page of anecdote, he has a natural talent for keeping you on the edge of your seat’ Melissa Katsoulis, <i>The Times</i>

‘A masterpiece. Edward St Aubyn is a writer of immense gifts’ Patrick McGrath

‘Blackly comic, superbly written fiction . . . His style is crisp and light; his similes exhilarating in their accuracy . . . St Aubyn writes with luminous tenderness of Patrick’s love for his sons’ Caroline Moore, <i>Sunday Telegraph</i>

‘The darkest possible comedy about the cruelty of the old to the young, vicious and excruciatingly honest. It opened my eyes to a whole realm of experience I have never seen written about. That’s the mark of a masterpiece’ <i>The Times </i>

‘The wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse and the waspishness of Waugh. A joy’ Zadie Smith, <i>Harpers</i>

'One of the most amazing reading experiences I've had in a decade.' Michael Chabon, <i>LA Times</i>