Mother's Milk (novel)

First edition (publ. Grove Press)

Mother's Milk is a novel by Edward St Aubyn.[1][2] The 279-page book is a sequel to the trilogy Some Hope that St. Aubyn wrote in the 1990s.[3] Mother's Milk was written in 2006 and was short listed for the Booker Prize that year.[4] It was republished in a single volume with Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope in 2012. All four novels are based on the author's life growing up in an upper-class English family and deal with issues including alcoholism, heroin addiction, parent-child relationships, and child molestation.[5]

In 2012, the book was adapted into a film directed by Gerry Fox and co-written by St. Aubyn. The film starred Jack Davenport, Adrian Dunbar, Diana Quick, and Margaret Tyzack.

  1. ^ White, Edmund (14 January 2006). "Review: Mother's milk by Edward St Aubyn". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  2. ^ Arditti, Michael (20 January 2006). "Mother's Milk, by Edward St Aubyn". The Independent. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  3. ^ McGrath, Charles (13 November 2005). "'Mother's Milk': The Last Marxists". The New York Times. p. 12. ISSN 0362-4331.
  4. ^ "Mother's Milk | The Man Booker Prizes". themanbookerprize.com. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  5. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (21 February 2012). "Edward St. Aubyn's 'At Last,' an Autobiographical Novel". The New York Times. p. C1.