But Some Hope is the final volume in Edward St Aubyn’s seductively readable trilogy, and as with the first two (Never Mind, in which incestuous child abuse occurs within a ‘civilised’ English family, ...

Death, psychosis, apocalypse — it’s a strong mixture for a novel. In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were actually ...

In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were actually hoping to read and enjoy. Happily, St Aubyn — the author of ...

Death, psychosis, apocalypse — it’s a strong mixture for a novel. In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were ...

His new novel 'Parallel Lines' returns to many of the themes of his celebrated Patrick Melrose books - but it can't live up ...

This hope is lent credence by the echoes of Twelfth Night in the siblings’ names. Edward St Aubyn, one of the most acclaimed novelists of his generation, is best known for the five semi ...

For Edward St Aubyn, the success of his Patrick Melrose quintet, which brilliantly combined uncompromising self-exposure with caustic social satire, has been cruelly double-edged. While garnering ...

Yet St Aubyn has never regained his form since Melrose and this novel circles round and round itself in desultory search of a plot. There are hints of St Aubyn’s scabrous wit in Sebastian’s ...

At the start of the inquest into her death, the trust that runs the St Aubyn Centre in Colchester told the jury that Elise had been able to return to her room unaccompanied on 17 April 2021 ...

Elise Sebastian, a Harry Potter fan and music lover, was found unresponsive in her room at the St Aubyn Centre unit in Colchester in April 2021. Staff at the unit, run by the Essex Partnership ...