Mothers Milk Offering a Balance of Theory

Offering a Balance of Theory

Whether Describing His Own Spirituality

the Day Before His Fifth Birthday is an Ordinary Day He and His Sister Play With Her Dolls and He Helps His Mother With the Laundry

and in Telling a Story of Dispossession and Defeat

the Merchant of Venice Explores Prejudice and the True Nature of Justice

Mothers Milk Offering a Balance of TheoryWinner of the 2006 South Bank Literature Award the Once Illustrious, Once Wealthy Melroses Are in Peril. Caught in the Wreckage of Broken Promises, Child Rearing, Adultery and Assisted Suicide, Patrick Finds His Wife Consumed by Motherhood, His Mother Consumed by a New Age Foundation, and His Five Year Old Son Robert Understanding Far More Than He Ought. Showcasing Edward St Aubyn's Ability to Combine the Most Excruciating Emotional Pain With the