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Mother's Milk

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Synopsis

A witty, perceptive and complex family portrait which examines the shifting allegiances between mothers, sons and husbands.

There's Robert, who provides an exceptionally droll and compelling account of being born; Patrick, a hilariously churlish husband who has been sexually abandoned by his wife in favour of his sons; and Mary, who's consumed by her children and an overwhelming desire not to repeat the mistakes of her own mother.

Edward St. Aubyn examines the web of false promises that entangle this once-illustrious family whose last vestige of wealth - an old house in the south of France - is about to be donated by Patrick's mother to a New Age foundation...

Reviews and Press Quotes

Daily Mail

“St Aubyn's descriptive powers are awesome.”

Guardian

“Our purest living prose stylist.”

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