Comedy and tragedy converge in this tale of high finance and brutal family betrayal, from 'The most brilliant English novelist of his generation' Alan Hollinghurst
From the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, now a major Sky Atlantic television series starring Benedict CumberbatchHenry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day.
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Comedy and tragedy converge in this tale of high finance and brutal family betrayal, from 'The most brilliant English novelist of his generation' Alan Hollinghurst
From the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, now a major Sky Atlantic television series starring Benedict CumberbatchHenry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day.
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Comedy and tragedy converge in this tale of high finance and brutal family betrayal, from 'The most brilliant English novelist of his generation' Alan HollinghurstFrom the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, now a major Sky Atlantic television series starring Benedict CumberbatchHenry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan. But relations quickly soured, leaving him to doubt the wisdom of past decisions.Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. Who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate?
Critic Reviews
“St Aubyn has a natural talent for keeping you on the edge of your seat... His prose has an easy charm that masks a ferocious, searching intellect”
St Aubyn has a natural talent for keeping you on the edge of your seat… His prose has an easy charm that masks a ferocious, searching intellect The Times
Malevolently enjoyable… A fable of fatherly neglect and daughterly cruelty Financial Times
Deeply affecting…and funny Observer
Powerful… Entertaining Spectator
About the Author
Edward St Aubyn was born in London. His superbly acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk (winner of the Prix Femina etranger and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), and At Last. The series was made into a BAFTA-award winning Sky Atlantic TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. St Aubyn is also the author of A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge (shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize), Lost for Words (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), and Dunbar, his re-imagining of King Lear for Hogarth Shakespeare.
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