Mother's Milk

Mother's Milk was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the South Bank Literature Award.

"So good - so fantastically well-written, profound and humane... it is heart-stopping" - Observer

The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught up in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery, and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife Mary consumed by motherhood, his mother in thrall to a New Age foundation, and his young son Robert understanding far more than he should. But even as the family struggles against the pull of its ever-present past, a new generation brings a new tenderness, and the possibility of change.

"Wonderful caustic wit... Polished yet profound, it's even better than his previous work, and that's saying something" - The Guardian

Mother's Milk has the cerebral excitement and piercing funniness of St Aubyn at his brilliant best" - Tatler

Part of the Picador Collection