A review by claben
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn

5.0

Brutally clear-eyed and relentless in their observation of Britain's upper classes, these novels, with their themes of inheritance and disinheritance, spare no one. A note of caution - though each individual novel is short, with two of the four encompassing only one day's length, I don't recommend reading the whole omnibus straight through. The precise renditions of cruelty, snobbery, and hypocrisy can become overwhelming.