The edition of the book was printed with the funds of the institutional support grant for publishers. The events of the third novel in the series about Patrick Melrose take place 8 years after the death of David Melrose. Patrick learns to live in a new way, and for this he has to deal with the skeletons in his own closet. For many years, he avoided even thinking about what happened to him in childhood, and sincerely hated his father. But now he is ready to face the ghosts of the past.