At Last

The brilliant culmination of the Melrose novels.

As friends, relations and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor, Patrick Melrose finds that orphanhood isn't necessarily the liberation he had for so long imagined. Yet is it possible that as the service ends and the family gather for a final party, amidst the social niceties and the social horrors, the calms and the rapids, Patrick begins to sense a new current – even a form of safety?

A powerful, glittering novel of the treacheries of family, At Last is the brilliant and profoundly moving culmination of the Melrose books.

About the Author

Edward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. His superbly acclaimed Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope (previously published collectively as the Some Hope trilogy), Mother's Milk (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006) and At Last. He is also the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge.