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Some Hope
by Edward St. Aubyn
In many ways, the 3rd Patrick Melrose book is a return to the form of the first. Once again, we follow the intolerable rich gentry of England through their preparations for a gathering and into the party itself. Some characters return (Bridget, hooray; Nicholas, ugh) but we do get to actually explore Patrick now that he is sober and trying to figure out what to do with himself when drugs don't fill his days.
This is still a darkly hilarious book, if not quite as packed with witticisms as the first. You dislike virtually everyone in it almost immediately, even the extended cameo from Princess Margaret, who would be absolutely delicious if she didn't think so highly of herself.
But we finally start getting down to it here. There is no active trauma taking place, finally. We can sit for a bit and get a hold of ourselves. In this novel, Patrick finally confesses his father's sexual assault against him as part of a search for catharsis and possibly even forgiveness. He is haunted by his father, his hatred of his father, and of the possibility that his father may have shown some signs of goodness. Patrick is the most likable character in the book in many ways, though there are at least a few you don't utterly despise this time.
I was a bit nervous after the harrowing events of the first book and the extended drug abuse of the second, but I think we may finally be settling down to what St. Aubyn is really about and I'm curious for the rest of the series.
This is still a darkly hilarious book, if not quite as packed with witticisms as the first. You dislike virtually everyone in it almost immediately, even the extended cameo from Princess Margaret, who would be absolutely delicious if she didn't think so highly of herself.
But we finally start getting down to it here. There is no active trauma taking place, finally. We can sit for a bit and get a hold of ourselves. In this novel, Patrick finally confesses his father's sexual assault against him as part of a search for catharsis and possibly even forgiveness. He is haunted by his father, his hatred of his father, and of the possibility that his father may have shown some signs of goodness. Patrick is the most likable character in the book in many ways, though there are at least a few you don't utterly despise this time.
I was a bit nervous after the harrowing events of the first book and the extended drug abuse of the second, but I think we may finally be settling down to what St. Aubyn is really about and I'm curious for the rest of the series.