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Product details

  • ISBN 9781529953886
  • Weight: 188g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 07 May 2026
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A brother and sister lost and found, in a novel that seizes your heart and enthrals your mind, from the author of the Patrick Melrose series.

‘Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation’ Alan Hollinghurst

‘We set off in opposite directions and walked around the world until we met, and I’m very pleased we have…’

Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him with a fragile hold on reality and a hunger to connect with the mother who abandoned him. His therapist, Martin, also faces challenges, including his adopted daughter Olivia’s tenuous relationship with her biological mother. Olivia, meanwhile, is producing a radio series on natural disasters, which itself seems to be running parallel to the events unfolding in her personal life.

Over a year, their fates collide and each of their destinies is revealed in a marvellous new light.

A tale of art and familybrimming with wordplayFinancial Times


Sentences that whoosh past like arrows St Aubyns talents are mightyNew York Times

‘I love Edward St Aubyn’ Donna Tartt

Edward St Aubyn was born in London. His internationally acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother’s Milk (winner of the Prix Femina étranger and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and At Last. The series was made into a BAFTA award-winning Sky Atlantic TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. St Aubyn is also the author of A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge (shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize), Lost for Words (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Dunbar and Double Blind.

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