Edward St Aubyn

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Mariella Frostrup in extended conversation with novelist Edward St Aubyn, author of the Booker nominated Mother's Milk. St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical books centre on the saga of the Melroses, a family suffocated by the presence of a sadistic father and a disillusioned mother. His alter ego, Patrick Melrose, has just come to the end of his fictional journey with the publication of the final chapter in the series, At Last. Edward St Aubyn joins Mariella to discuss the end of his decade-long relationship with the Melroses, and how his extraordinary life - which included being raped by his father and becoming a drug addict - fuelled his fiction. With readings by Rory Kinnear. PRODUCER: AASIYA LODHI.