This is the longest of the Patrick Melrose novels although it is also rather short. Patrick has finally embarked on a somewhat normal life. The beginning of this volume is told from the point of view of his older son who has inherited the habit of running internal dialogues. The arrival of a second son triggers a sort of abandonment of Patrick and young Robert from the attention of Mary who is terminally besotted with the outrageously precocious new arrival, Thomas. Patrick's own mother has bequeathed his birthright of the home in France to a New Age "Shaman" and is now slowly dying in a nursing home.Alcohol abuse, extramarital affairs, and the discussion of assisted suicide add further complications to the story. So far, this is the best one of the lot. One more book to go.
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