‘Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation’ Alan HollinghurstThe once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and father, is trying to gather together the pieces of his life. Caught up in the turmoil of broken promises, assisted suicide, adultery and – most tender and terrifying of all – fatherhood, Patrick is still a long way from salvation, but even as the family struggles against the pull of its dark past, a new generation promises new light, new hope and – perhaps – the promise of a brighter future.Deeply moving, hilarious and heartbreaking, Patrick Melrose: Volume 2 contains the final two novels in the Patrick Melrose series, Mother’s Milk and At Last.‘So good – so fantastically well written, profound and humane . . . it is heartstopping’ Observer‘The wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse, the waspishness of Waugh. A joy’ Zadie Smith