Edward St. Aubyn was born in London. His superbly acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels are Never Mind, which won a Betty Trask Award; Bad News; Some Hope; Mother’s Milk, which won the Prix Femina étranger and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and At Last. He is also the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit; On the Edge, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize; and Lost for Words, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.