Mother's Milk — Edward St. Aubyn

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Man Bookerâ€"shortlisted Mother's Milk, the fourth installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose Cycle, sees Patrick as a lawyer, married, with a five-year-old child and another on the way.

The novel shifts points of view from Patrick -- furious over his mother's decision to sell their mansion in the South of France to a ridiculous New Age hippie -- to Patrick's wife, overburdened by motherhood, to Patrick's mother, growing senile and despondent, and even to Patrick's young son Robert, who reflects with hilarious and disturbing clarity on the moments of his birth.