“The Patrick Melrose series has been the most amazing reading experience of the last decade for me,” wrote Michael Chabon. He was echoed by such venerable writers as David Nichols (“Edward St. Aubyn’s novels about Patrick Melrose are a complete delight from beginning to end. Everyone should read it immediately!”), Alan Hallinghurst (“Edward St. Aubyn is probably the most brilliant British the author of his generation"), Alice Sebold (“Edward St. Aubyn is one of our greatest stylists, and his novels about Patrick Melrose are a masterpiece of literature of the 21st century”) and many others. The main character, whose life is largely based on the biography of himself the author, trying to overcome the consequences of childhood trauma; the action, starting in an aristocratic villa in Provence, then moves to New York and Gloucestershire...One of the main television events of 2018 was the release of the series Patrick Melrose, based on this series of novels, already nominated for an Emmy Award. The script was written by David Nichols, the main roles were played by Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hugo Weaving, Holly Granger. For the first time in Russian!