SOME HOPE

The third in the series. Now cleaned up and world weary, Patrick Melrose is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside. Amid a crowd of flitting social dragonflies he finds his search for redemption and capacity for forgiveness challenged by his observation of the cruelties around him. Armed with his biting wit and a newly fashioned openness, can Patrick, who has been to the furthest limits of experience, drug addiction and alcoholism and back again, find release from the savageries of his childhood? Blackly comic, crisp and light brimming with sardonic perceptiveness and literary finesse. 209pp, paperback.