Bad News

''I''ve loved Edward St Aubyn''s Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now'' - David Nicholls Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn''s semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the aristocratic addict, Patrick. Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father''s ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick''s remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan, haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel, he pushes body and mind to the very edge - desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past. Bad News was originally published, along with Never Mind and Some Hope , as part of a three-book omnibus also called Some Hope . ''The Melrose novels are remarkable - ferociously funny, painfully acute and exhilaratingly written'' - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Edward St Aubyn
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.06.2025
• EAN: 9781035063741
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3506374-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Series: The Patrick Melrose Novels; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, New York, New York City, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Satirical style / satire