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Never Mind

by Edward St Aubyn · 1992

Literary Fiction · ranked #91 in category

Five-year-old Patrick Melrose spends a terrible day at his family's Provençal farmhouse while his brilliant, sadistic father, his numbed mother and their assorted guests inflict and absorb the particular cruelties of the English upper class. The first of the Patrick Melrose novels is the shortest and the most compressed — a day in childhood that contains everything.

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The verdict

Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1992 · 1990s
Author
Edward St Aubyn
Standing
Essential Read

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