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Bad News

by Edward St Aubyn

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Narrator Alex Jennings

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Length 5 hours 12 minutes

Language English

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About the author

Bad News is the second novel in Edward St Aubuyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. This audiobook edition is read by stage and screen actor Alex Jennings.

Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father’s ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick’s remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan, haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel, he pushes body and mind to the very edge – desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past.

Fiction Fiction - Literary

Edward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. He is the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge, At Last and the trilogy Some Hope. Mother's Milk was the winner of the Prix Femina Etranger 2007.