Edward St Aubyn
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Edward St Aubyn (born 1960 in Cornwall) is a British author and journalist. He attended Westminster School and Oxford University.
St Aubyn is the author of the Patrick Melrose trilogy (Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, published collectively in the UK as Some Hope: A Trilogy), and more recently, On The Edge, A Clue to the Exit and Mother's Milk (shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize).
Edward St Aubyn's metier is the upper-class in all their waspishness, detailing their traumatic childhoods, preoccupation with drugs and sex with an acid wit reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh, Patrick Hamilton, and more recently Julian Fellowes. His earlier books are broadly autobiographical, detailing the sexual abuse he suffered from his father as a child and his addiction to heroin. Mother's Milk is a loose sequel to the Patrick Melrose/Some Hope trilogy, and also includes elements of satire on New Age establishments, like his non-Melrose novels On the Edge and A Clue to the Exit.
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