And, for all I knew, it might not have happened since ancient Greece. St. Aubyn added, It would be very different now. Patrick appears in the second chapter, carrying a toy sword, reflecting on the texture of squashed snails. This practice is not currently enrolling new patients. But terrorized abstinence is also a defeat.) That year, he started a new novel, under an extreme contract with himself. Patrick phones Mary about supper. At the heart of the Estate is St Michael's Mount, which the St Aubyn family look after and . And yet A. J. Ayer, who took camping and motoring trips with Roger St. Aubyn, had an attitude that Gully Wells summarized as Roger? His hands had begun to curl up from Dupuytrens contracturehis son now has the same problemand he had rheumatism. By the time that St. Aubyn and I reached Wolfson College, he had become agitated by the thought that we would arrive less than an hour before he had to speak. It leads to splitting and fragmentation. Uh, yes, cousins, St. Aubyn said, in a way that discouraged this line of small talk. . So I thought, I have to stop it or get some help.. Hed play for six hours, and she would paint. Or one could say, as St. Aubyn put it, that the books trace Patrick Melroses attempt to emerge with dignity from an impossible assault on dignity. Certainly, it was a happier ending than St. Aubyn was expecting. The Saint-Tropez household is out of Roald Dahl: a woman blathers to her personal chef in awful French while her fat and stupid son watches a cartoon and munches vacantly on cheese puffs. She said, Im your new nanny, and now its time to have a bath. Its a bit late in the day, but why not start now? It was like a heartbeat, from adolescence through to my late twenties: I want to live, I want to die; I want to live, I want to die. We were in a semicircular booth in a restaurant on Portobello Road. Contents 1 Personal background and education 2 Patrick Melrose series 3 Awards and honours 4 Works 5 References He said, Do you have a television? I said, No. He said, Oh, do get one, theyre very relaxing. St. Aubyn laughed. He expected to inherit that land, but this didnt happen. (Patrick, referring back to the lizard on the wall, defines irony as that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.) St. Aubyn now regards her behavior as a renactment of her own disinheritance: She was sleepwalking her way through a repetition syndrome, while thinking she was going to raise the worlds consciousness and inaugurate the Aquarian age, and there would never be any more war, or hatred, or challenging novels.. Alexandra, Edwards older sister, had just been born. Fast paced. AAE Named to Inc. Best Workplaces in 2022. I thought I would be shunned, and that people would be disgusted, he said. It was very painful for him to play, but he had this weird relationship with pain, you know, St. Aubyn said. Finishing a five-book series, St. Aubyn wanted equally to avoid an anticlimax and a miracle. He had started injecting cocaine and heroin at sixteen, while he was a student at Westminster School, in London. Hed wrap himself in towels, he was sweating so much. In the months before publication, in February, 1992, St. Aubyn placed a call each day to his publisher, with the aim of withdrawing the novel; hed hang up when someone answered. He later learned that his parents had already drawn on Lelas gift to pay for his education, which allows him to say that there was no point at which I was given anything by my parentsthe whole thing came from this dead stranger.. A few years later, after a tabloid interlude when Jerry Hall was accompanied to an event or two by an obscure novelist with a troubled historyJERRYS TEDDY BOYSt. When James encountered Chilly Willya Lower East Side drug dealer who became a character, Chilly Willy, in Bad Newsit was because St. Aubyn, in a double-breasted pin-striped suit, went directly to score after picking up James at J.F.K. Rachael Horovitz, a producer of Moneyball, is working on a complete series of Melrose films for television, a project that she recently described as a modern-day, albeit twisted version of the miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waughs Brideshead Revisited. St. Aubyn told me that Pinter, not long before his death, took him to lunch in a Notting Hill restaurant a few doors away and sternly praised his work. Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. I couldnt give a master class on relaxation, he said, as we left the restaurant. Available at 303 St Aubyn Street West, Hastings Enrolling new patients. St. Lucy, Italian Santa Lucia, (died 304, Syracuse, Sicily; feast day December 13), virgin and martyr who was one of the earliest Christian saints to achieve popularity, having a widespread following before the 5th century. Patrick recalls a beloved childrens book in which a goat battles a wolf, replays a recent terrifying dream, and arrives at a new understanding of his mothers complicity in his fathers cruelty: The deeper truth that he had been a toy in the sadomasochistic relationship between his parents was not, until now, something he could bear to contemplate.. He could be very ferocious, St. Aubyn recalled. He knocked together two of the cottages to make a space that he considered a perfect writing machine. In the mornings, he took his notebook to the Mediterranean, five miles away, and moved from caf to caf. It's hard to think of an unhappier family than the one Edward St. Aubyn began to chronicle in 1992 with the publication of Never Mind, the first of what would become the Patrick Melrose series - five novels of torture, brutality, drug addiction, and denial all within the life of one upper class English familyand, for Edward St. Aubyn, much of it He had then just sold his Kensington house, in order to acquire a larger place in Notting Hill. On the footprint of the church built in 1135, and probably. Open today 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM. Watching St. Aubyn walk up the steps to his front door, wearing a long coat from another era, into a nine- or ten-million-dollar house of regret and economic retrenchment, I found it easy to imagine him in the company of one of his relatives, such as his Scottish grandfather, who spent much of the Second World War in Nassau with his friend the Duke of Windsorthe former King Edward VIIIand who drank himself to death in Monte Carlo; or his great-uncle, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, a first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II, who helped to murder Rasputin, survived the revolution, and later worked as a champagne salesman in Paris. Feeling that he had to confess, St. Aubyn said, Well, there is a problemI am a heroin addict. The professor was concerned. As Nick Ayer put it, St. Aubyn would be disinherited for a bunch of loonsfor her cat, almost. St. Aubyn was appalled; he spent much of his time in France, and wrote there, and felt that his sanity depended on access to the landscape. Patrick recalls a story that David sometimes told to guests late at night; Roger St. Aubyn used to tell the same story. St Aubyn had a short-lived marriage in his 20s, and has since had children - 16-year-old Eleanor and 11-year-old Lucian - in relationships that did not lead to marriage. Edward St Aubyn - International Authors' Stage - The Black Diamond. He was twenty-five. Years of psychoanalysis, and the controlled fiction that followed, deferred the threat of suicide. Suddenly he felt himself being hoisted off the ground and thrown high in the air. "He found her pretty in a bewildered, washed-out way, but it was her restlessness that aroused him, the quiet exasperation of a woman who longs to throw herself into something significant, but cannot find what it is." Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels tags: arousal , restlessness 34 likes Like In the first session, he told Dr. James about the sexual abuse. His take on King Lear , Shakespeare's most devastating family story, is an excoriating novel for and of our times - an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness. She said, O.K., I will paint if you play the piano. Roger hadnt played for years. Or his father, a musically gifted sadist who died in New York. Saint Aubyn (@iamsaintaubyn) Instagram photos and videos iamsaintaubyn 151 posts 3,015 followers 1,303 following Saint Aubyn Actor Grammy Nominated || Lloyd Price in Personality, the Lloyd Price Musical || Dennis Edwards in the Tony Winning Broadway Musical "Ain't Too Proud" From the bestselling author of the Patrick Melrose novels, this is a thought-provoking and entertaining insight into a sniping world of literature, celebrity culture and ambition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2019-12-23 00:08:59 Boxid IA1747917 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier He also gave up his usual work habitswrenching personal excavations, repeated revisions, and the tyranny of the artiste maudit clichin favor of a quick attempt at fun. The row of lanterns down the dinner table, the quiet gleam of silver, the well-trained servants, the triumph of imposing civilization on the wild vastness of the Indian night, seemed to have been thrown into question. My father was too depressed to speak, a lot of the time, and if he did he talked about suicide. There was, he said, a David-and-Goliath moment. I never had any trouble remembering what were the most outstandingly violent and life-threatening events in my childhood. BIC and Garden. And this is what was so interesting about him. St. Aubyns most compelling books are Never Mind and At Last, which have the least dialogue, and the most Roger. But you can see why Id do that., In At Last, Patrick is in his forties, and his father is long dead. More than. I go through a thoroughly democratic process. James also recalled how St. Aubyn sometimes reacted, at dinner parties, to a strangers careless remark: A not terribly bright girl might say, Ooh, thats fun, and he would play with her use of language in a way that humiliated her. He added, It was like a wolf savaging a sheep. 1. All American Entertainment Named to Inc. Best Workplaces in 2022. He was also carrying a set of his novels, filled with bookmarks. The company has closed over 6500. 1 He died on 20 September 2015 at age . In 2006, Mother's Milk was shortlisted for the Booker Prize . (As Patrick observes, in Bad News, it was the first time he had been alone with his father for more than ten minutes without being buggered, hit, or insulted.) Then, on a drug break in London, St. Aubyn recalled, I just thought, Actually, its all too complicated, and Im going to kill myself. He filled a syringe with a deadly amount of heroin but passed out before he had fully pressed the plunger. The election of a Conservative government, in 1979, and the success of such period dramas as Brideshead Revisited had made it newly fashionable for students to participate in moneyed, black-tie frolics. In Some Hope, Patrick makes a disclosure: he tells Johnny that he was abused by his father. 'All Among the Barley' by Melissa Harrison was the UK winner of the EU Prize for . Read classic New Yorker stories, curated by our archivists and editors. When St. Aubyn is not focussed on Patricks struggle, his characterizations can devolve into mimicry. 1.5. But it was cheering. The novels enact, and describe, therapeutic progress, but St. Aubyn, led by a literary taste for compression, and by the desire to create vivid and intense and non-boring fiction, left out much of the process that helped him survive to midlife. James, who has known St. Aubyn since childhood, and who once saw him, as a teen-ager, teaching others how to inject heroin, has charted his friends progress, and calls him an extraordinarily emotionally intelligent person. But the stability that St. Aubyn has achieved isnt quite calm. The writer Francis Wyndham, who is a friend and a sometime travel companion of St. Aubyns, and is eighty-nine, told me, Hes more a writer than a reader. In Some Hope, which was conceived as the final volume of a trilogy, he is thirty, and he attends a society party in the English countryside. I think thats affected my prose style, he said. 1. That was one thing that was going on, he continued. And she said, What are you doing? And I said, Youre a complete stranger, Im not taking my clothes off in front of you. And I climbed into the bath, in my suit, and sunk under the water, and just stared at her. The 2006 Booker Prize was won by Kiran Desai, the Indian novelist. Because of the floods, no trains were running, so the college sent a taxi. I had an income that was actually quite a lot, but I would run out, because I was living in the Pierre and having five thousand dollars of drugs a week. Youll regret it, she said of his decision to take over the property. One observer described him as a golden lamb with very beautiful soft skin and wonderful wavy hair., St. Aubyn remained a drug addict, but he said that Shulman civilized him: It was good to have some care. For the next few years, his heroin bingesinjections spaced twenty minutes apartwere interrupted by more sociable patterns of drug-taking and swanning around, although, as Nick Ayer put it, his more normal times would kill most people. St. Aubyn said that he ached to return to his former life, but there was a beautiful girlfriend, there was a party to go to. (Shulman, who declined to be interviewed, became a well-regarded journalist and author, and is now married to a marquessbelow a duke, above an earl.). How could it possibly help to plant a lie in the middle of it? In the Melrose series, St. Aubyn touches only occasionally on the period between Patricks young childhood and his twenties. St. Aubyn was a dyslexic child, and is still a slow reader. At Exeter 13 June 1249. (Most are not.) It isnt quite the same as sitting under the plane trees. But there was a compensation: readers had finally caught up with St. Aubyns project, and, as if settling an old debt, Mothers Milk became a best-seller in Britain. Marjory Katharine Elizabeth Alexandra St. Aubyn. This beautiful, fragile, terraced garden was designed in 1878 for. As he wrote, he began to allow Patrick, sitting alone, to consider how the death of both parents could create a truce with his inheritance, if not quite the acceptance, acceptance, acceptance of Lorna St. Aubyns ritual. I never understood that theory. . Married Hon. & A. with her, and to read from the Melrose series. He then fought the Truro by-election in March 1987 following the death of David Penhaligon, when Matthew Taylor comfortably held the seat for the Liberals. I think trauma, during the period of our lives we can remember, doesnt lead to repression, he said. She is the patron saint of the city of Syracuse (Sicily) and of virgins. It was fucking spooky, St. Aubyn said. It was absolutely terrifying, and difficult to interfere with. I later spoke with a woman who had had exactly this experience, in France: I said something about a book I didnt really know. Absorb Mother's Milk into your and bloodstream and postnatal depression . It took St. Aubyn five years to finish At Last. In the novel, Patrick is separated from his wife, Mary, and their two children, and is living in a small apartment in London. In Never Mind, after David Melrose beats and rapes young Patrick one afternoonand Patrick allows his mind to escape into the body of a lizard he sees on the wallDavid wonders, facetiously, if he had perhaps pushed his disdain for middle-class prudery a little too far.. At dusk, St. Aubyn closed the shutters and snapped down their metal bars. I thought about suicide constantly during those years, St. Aubyn said, one day at lunch. Those were books that were influencing me then, as a very disturbed and heavily drug-addictedbut also very seriousseventeen-year-old, who kept flying and crashing. Mon - Sun: 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM: Public Holidays: Open on . Oliver James said of Roger, He engaged with me. St. Aubyn, who is grateful for her teaching, had no idea that she was a writer (and, guided by a friend with a strong aversion, has still not read her books). Splendid fellow! Nick Ayer said, My parents were vile to one anotherall my friends parents were vile to one another. And he got out of bed, and shaved, and bought a ticket to New York. St. Aubyn had been asked by his host, Dame Hermione Lee, the biographer and academic, to sit for a Q. In 1954, Francis St Aubyn, 3rd Lord St Levan, gave a large part of the island to the National Trust, under a unique arrangement whereby the family have a 999-year lease to live in the castle and a licence to operate the visitor business. When the journalist asked for advice, Lucian said something slightly eerie: Dont try to be clever. One had the impression that Lorna was terrified of him, she said. 2 Bed Townhouse in New Redruth. Hours 303 St Aubyn Street West, Hastings. with my brother.. Set mainly at a bustling Notting Hill house party in 1980, the roughly hour-long drama, starring Micheal Ward and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn (in her screen debut), takes its name from a subgenre of . In Britain, the publishing marketplace has become so saturated with nonfiction renactments of this theme that the genre is known, with brusque mockery, as the misery memoir, and bookstores have Painful Lives sections filled with such titles as Tell Me Why, Mummy and Please, Daddy, No. St. Aubyn is seen to have done something remarkable with his balance of wretchedness and wit. It was, for him, the deepest moment of authenticity so far, which I can very easily betray by becoming distracted, by becoming caught up in some game. He continued, But I know its there, and, at my best, thats where I would be.. I thought, Or I could tell someone the truth. No. I wanted the freedom and the sublimatory power of writing a novel, he told me. He wrote a first chapter: on a September morning in the South of France, an Englishman drowns ants with a garden hose, while his wife anticipates the sticky, awkward cubes of ice in her days first cocktail. He ate alone, in a suit, in Oxfords most expensive restaurants. The beating heart of St Michael's Mount. SAINT AUBYN MAUGER I [Devon Feet Of Fines V1] No. He had started a few novels, and was contributing occasionally to Tatler, a magazine, then having its day, that allowed middle-class readers to eavesdrop on a version of smart, funny talk between toffs. With his usual elegant prose, St. Aubyn follows three friendsFrancis, Olivia, and Lucythrough a transformative year . Early in the new century, St. Aubyn began working on a novel that he was slow to recognize as a continuation of the Melrose series. Aubyn Hill (second right), participates in the ground-breaking exercise for the FirstRock Real Estate Investments (FREI) $2.5- billion luxury residential development, Bonne Chance, located at 8A Brompton Road, Kingston. New Redruth. Without any narrative, and wretched settings.. St. Aubyns back garden has a door that leads into the same kind of treasured space. A year later, her book Offshore won the Booker Prize. I had been slightly put off them before, he told me, in an e-mail. And dressing up like a real English gentleman on a beach is one of those things.. St. Lucian of Antioch Catholic Online Saints & Angels Facts Feastday: January 7 Birth: 240 Death: 312 Author and Publisher - Catholic Online Printable Catholic Saints PDFs Shop St. Lucian of Antioch Theologian, scholar, and martyr praised by Sts. St. Aubyn was, effectively, the runner-up: I was told that Mothers Milk lost, four votes to one, when the judges met just before the ceremonial dinner. He is the author of ten novels, including notably the semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels. An up-to-the-minute dissection of the mores of child-rearing, marriage, adultery and assisted suicide, Mother's Milk showcases Edward St. Aubyn's luminous and acidic prose - and his masterful ability to combine the most excruciating emotional pain with the driest comedy. He was committed to heroinwhose effect is described, in Bad News, as being as soft and rich as the throat of a wood pigeonbut he kept other drugs in the drawer by his bed. He just thought it was completely fabulous, as indeed it was. We had begun to talk about this the previous evening, in the American Bar of the Savoy Hotel, where St. Aubyn had ordered a Manhattan, and the wait staff, apparently following a script, kept asking us if we were marking a special occasion. St. Aubyn and Shulman had married in 1987, but they separated before the end of the decade. In 2009, in his closet-sized Notting Hill study, St. Aubyn had written his way to his present selfin its fundamentals, if not its details. He had a project. Free shipping for many products! Secondary characters can be knocked flat by satire and scorn. Today, James is well known in Britain for his broadcasting and his writing, including a book whose title bleeps Larkin: They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life. He is several years older than St. Aubyn, and has at times been a surrogate big brotherand, to some extent, hes Johnny Hall, Patrick Melroses kindest friend, although James, unlike Johnny, was never very interested in hard drugs. John Chrysostom and Jerome. And she said no, and I fought and fought and fought. It was a betrayal and an indignity: his own pursuit of self-knowledge would be thwarted by a New Age parody of that idea. Patrick is enormously empathic, but largely on his own behalf. Because of various traditions associating her name with light, she came to be thought of as the . In Bad News, the second novel, Patrick is a heroin addict in his twenties, collecting Davids ashes in New York. May 28, 2021 11:05 am ET. But he was drawn to fiction, not memoir. One can detect in this a hint of his fathers contempt for bourgeois niceties. Roger gave her the creeps, James recalled. Under the terms of his treaty, relapses were burdensome, and required a long drive back to London; he had to finish consuming the drug before returning. He narrowed his eyes. His protagonist was initially named Mark; St. Aubyn has described performing a global search-and-replace on his draft that introduced such typos as superPatricket. In what became Mothers Milk, Patrick, now married, is beset by parental worry, and, at the beach, by drunken lust: Oh, God, why was life so badly organized? It was Either I write a novel which I finish and get published, and is authentic, or Ill kill myself, he said. This mockery is sometimes awkward: the novel doesnt quite vouch for Patricks scorn, but the absurdity of his victims is a given. Roger St. Aubyn, an old Etonian and a former lieutenant in the 4th Queens Own Hussars, was the second type, and, in his sons description, his sadism was emboldened by a sense of social grandeur, and by the pleasure he took in ignoring convention. I used to hear you screaming down the corridor, day after day. My study here is basically a big cupboard, he said. Im sure that I translate my thoughts into sentences more insistently, and associate them with words more readily, than a lot of people, he told me. The Duc de Talleyrand outlived Lornas mother, and, according to St. Aubyn, broke a promise to pass on the bulk of the Emery fortune to his two stepdaughters. . He and Shulman spent time at Le Plan. St. Aubyn had by then given himself a few years to experience Le Plan through the eyes of his son. Poverty and dereliction, and self-neglect, and nobody ever visiting. They said, Look, we know how you feel, and its not how we feel, so dont bother saying anything. And that was the first inkling I had that there was some terrible darkness there., Within months of Rogers death, Edward St. Aubyn had begun to write about him. St Aubyn builds in Lorson Ranch, Meridian Ranch and Star Ranch.. I thought, Hell probably kill me but I cant. He now seems to drink in an amiably social way. One of the guesthouses on the former St. Aubyn property in the South of France. St. Aubyn brings off a seemingly effortless and provocative examination of the mind and its refractions. 128 Sir John St. Aubyn. Winner Takes All/,,Winner Takes AllWinner Takes Allmp4Winner Takes AllBT! David could only just make out, against a background of screams, the splendid tale of Archie Montcrieff driving a pony and trap into the Viceroys ballroom. In Davids telling, he got up, shot the man in the head, and then rejoined his dumbfounded friends, saying, Much the kindest thing to do. As Patrick explains in his icy narration, his father boasted that the men of the hunting party felt, by the end of the evening, that he had done something exceptionally courageous: David would almost smile as he described how he had brought everyone at the table round, and then in a fit of piety, he would sometimes finish by saying that although at the time he had not yet set eyes on a copy of Grays Anatomy, he really thought of that pistol shot as the beginning of his love affair with medicine., Its a fine passage: a tale of murder, an after-dinner story, and an Oedipal duel, in which the urbane disdain of Patrick is wielded against the urbane viciousness of his father. Clementina Gwendolen Catharine Nicolson, daughter of Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock and Mary Catharine Rowan-Hamilton, on 6 October 1916. A few years after Frankenbergs death, in the mid-seventies, Roger heard that MacIver was suicidally unhappy; she had stopped painting and was drinking wine from gallon jugs. I was always running away from Oxford, St. Aubyn said. 1 He was the son of Hon. My sense of home was lodged there, however disturbed a sense of home that was, he told me. Wayne St. Aubyn- - Wayne St. Aubyn, 54, a retired Lieutenant from the NJDOC-Bayside State Prison, passed away at Penn Presbyterian Hospital after a sudden and brief illness on Tuesday, May 7, 2019.He The other was that, on the plastic table, with its cigarette burns, was The Magic Mountain, Kafka, Becketts trilogy of novels, Camus. He asked for my understanding if he couldnt always manage to turn fully my wayalthough he sometimes found the fortitude to track the path of one or another slim woman as she took her seat in a nearby booth. To read the novels is to watch a high intelligence outsmart clich (or, to use a more Melrosian word, vulgarity), and so protect his protagonists literary distinction. St. Aubyn glanced at the paintings, on facing walls, which were by Loren MacIver, a New York painter who was married to a poet named Lloyd Frankenberg. Jasper Guinness, whos now dead . Lela was from a family whose vast fortune derived from Ohio real estate and pig fat. St. Aubyn reprised the series with Mothers Milk: Patrick is again in the family house in France, and is now the father of young sons. But, for St. Aubyn, the conclusion has not come to feel false or wishful. All American Speakers Bureau is a full-service talent booking agency providing information on booking Edward St. Aubyn for speaking engagements, personal appearances and corporate events. He recently finished a novel that, for the first time in more than a decade, does not involve Patrick Melrose, his psychologically fractured stand-in, or the awful senior Melroses. He made me feel very young, and very stupid., James placed this behavior in a generational setting. Oliver James said that St. Aubyn, by his thirties, had lost much of his social acerbity, and was further declawed by fatherhood. Part of me still longs for the purity of poetry, he said. 1. 2. But he was also a brilliant musician, and a man with a powerful mind, and someone who could make things, and could help people in the most extraordinary way. St Aubyn started injecting heroin as a 16-year-old at Westminster, one of Britain's elite schools. In Nick Ayers description, part of her was pleased that Teddy wrote the book, that the story could be told and that she didnt have to say anything. So she left. St. Aubyn prefers to tell a dark story lightly, avoiding what one of his characters calls the obscure and fatuous slang of a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. The transfer between Regency La Toc and Grande St. Lucian takes around 45 minutes. Although at the time a heroin addict, he graduated, but with a pass, the lowest possible class of degree. If St. Aubyns achievement is literary and psychiatric, its also sociological: he got something done. Such moments verge on the snobbery of contempt. When asked about this, St. Aubyn said that he could hear a cruelty in the voice of the first three books but not in Mothers Milk. If I write about a three-year-old child, the fact that he hasnt read the Iliad isnt unkind, on my part, he said. Jude Edginton for the wall street journal. The novel that St. Aubyn then began, At Last, registers his sense of accomplishment. The year that he lost the Booker, St. Aubyn sold Le Plan to a very nice and massively rich French family that reminded him of characters in the Babar books. Buried on 24 Jun 1699 in Crowan, Cornwall, ENG. In interviews Mr. St. Aubyn has acknowledged the autobiographical sources of the Melrose novels: at 5, he was raped by his father, and the abuse continued for years, while his mother professed. He fought for his life in a chaos of jerks and gulps, sometimes taking in air and sometimes water, until finally he managed to graze his fingers on the rough stone edge of the pool and he gave in to sobbing as quietly as possible, swallowing his despair, knowing that if he made too much noise his father would do something really violent and unkind. But when that was actually in the form of kindness it was very impressive.. 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