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|title=Mother's Milk

|author=Edward St Aubyn

|date=January 2007

|isbn=978-0330435918

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This is the book that should have won the Booker Prize last year. What on earth the judges were thinking of I just cannot imagine. They let us down. Again. ''Mother's Milk'' continues the story of Patrick Melrose, the victim of paternal abuse in St Aubyn's [[Some Hope]] trilogy. This time, as the title suggests, it's Patrick's mother who is letting him down. She's become involved with a New Age Foundation in favour of which she remorselessly disinherits Patrick, piece by family piece. ''Mother's Milk'' is elegant, it's witty, it's savage. Its insight is clear and piercing. Its prose style is beyond compare. St Aubyn handles multiple narrators with ease. It is dense and complicated but easy to read. In comparison, Kiran Desai's [[The Inheritance of Loss]] seems horribly insipid. You were cheated, Mr St Aubyn. But I didn't like your book.