Patrick Melrose, Volume 1: Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope
Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope
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Patrick Melrose, Volume 1: Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope
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Narrated by:
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Alex Jennings
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By:
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Edward St. Aubyn
About this listen
Read by actor Alex Jennings, Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.
Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a cruel father and an alcoholic mother to an adulthood fraught with addiction, Patrick Melrose is on a mission to escape himself.
But the drugs don’t make him forget his past, and the glittering parties offer him no redemption . . .
Searingly funny and deeply humane, Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in the Patrick Melrose series, Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope. Patrick Melrose Volume 2 is also available, containing the final two novels in the series, Mother’s Milk and At Last.
Critic Reviews
The Melrose sequence is now clearly one of the major achievements of contemporary British fiction. Stingingly well-written and exhilaratingly funny (David Sexton)
Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation (Alan Hollinghurst)
St Aubyn puts an entire family under a microscope, laying bare all its painful, unavoidable complexities. At once epic and intimate, appalling and comic, the novels are masterpieces, each and every one (Maggie O’Farrell)
What listeners say about Patrick Melrose, Volume 1: Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope
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- Jonathan
- 24-05-2024
Rewarding and entertaining
If resisted this tale for a long time. I figured I’d had enough of posh people who can behave horribly and get away with it because of their money and social status but St Aubyn manages to overcome this with his intelligent writing. The first book was the best I thought, the most insightful. I like the American characters who hold a mirror up to the snobbish ridiculous English world. The reader did a good job but, like many English readers, was hopeless with American accents, often make them sound stupid. Martin Jarvis captures the spirit of Americans the best for an Englishman.
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- Miss Hilary J Arundale
- 06-03-2021
Forensic dissection of the English upper class
A fascinating reflection on consciousness and class with a narrator who evokes the tortured brilliance and many voices of its (anti) hero.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-06-2018
How badly can people treat each other?
Other than highlighting a relentless pursuit of how badly people can treat each other, nothing happened throughout the book. It was like listening to the longest prologue ever written and then nothing happened.
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