The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk (Picador) and At Last (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
With the five-book series completed, Edward St. Aubyn sees The Patrick Melrose Novels as a chronicle of the breakdown of British class society. While St. Aubyn cautions that the book is not a sociological treatise, he discusses the new freedoms and liberation from the misuse of power in England today. (Part I aired March 15.)