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A review by michaelontheplanet
Some Hope by Edward St. Aubyn
4.0
Edward St Aubyn lives in my head like the Bad Fairy. My favourite bit of the Melrose chronicles remains the scene in a New York restaurant when Patrick’s knocking back the champagne and a waiter hovers: “Will anyone be joining sir?” “God, I hope not!“
In Some Hope, Princess Margaret at a house party causes even some of the aristos to contemplate atheism and a republic, banking is described as operating on religious faith, the Great Barrier Reef is proclaimed vulgar - “full of frightful loud colours, peacock blues and impossible oranges all higgledy-piggledy while one’s mask floods” - and people laugh “the innocent laughter of two snobs taking a holiday from that need to appear tolerant and open-minded.” And Zadie Smith thinks it’s hilarious. People like us like us.
In Some Hope, Princess Margaret at a house party causes even some of the aristos to contemplate atheism and a republic, banking is described as operating on religious faith, the Great Barrier Reef is proclaimed vulgar - “full of frightful loud colours, peacock blues and impossible oranges all higgledy-piggledy while one’s mask floods” - and people laugh “the innocent laughter of two snobs taking a holiday from that need to appear tolerant and open-minded.” And Zadie Smith thinks it’s hilarious. People like us like us.