The Patrick Melrose Novels

EDWARD ST AUBYN was born in London in 1960. His novel Mother's Milk was awarded the Prix Femina é tranger and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also the author of A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge (short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize), Lost for Words (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Double Blind, and Dunbar, his reimagining of King Lear for the Hogarth Shakespeare project. < p/> About the Introducer: JOHN SUTHERLAND is a British author, columnist, and professor at University College London. He writes for The Guardian and has twice served as a judge for the Booker Prize.