On the "Some Hope" Trilogy:

‘A masterpiece. Edward St Aubyn is a writer of immense gifts. His wit, his profound intelligence, and his exquisite control of a story that rapidly descends to the lower depths before somehow painfully rising again – all go to distinguish the trilogy as fiction of a truly rare and extraordinary quality’ - Patrick McGrath

‘Our purest living prose stylist’ - The Guardian

‘This is a beautifully written novel..whose harrowing but fiercely funny portrait of addiction is the best I’ve ever read’ - Time Out

On A Clue to the Exit:

Once more, St Aubyn takes us to the very limits of the expressible.' - The Spectator

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

On On the Edge:

‘An intellectually informed, richly insightful and vigorously funny take on the modern condition’ - Sunday Times

‘Pierced with goodwill, tenderness and a new kind of thoughtfulness’ - The Spectator

‘His satire is unfailingly funny and immensely satisfying’ - The Guardian

On Mother's Milk

‘Edward St Aubyn’s novels are so intoxicatingly witty that their high seriousness may not be immediately apparent. This seriousness is not tacked on as a solemn ‘message’; it is intrinsic to his ferociously comic vision. Yet they cannot be described as social satires: there is no facile exaggeration, no smug misanthropy or studied indignation involved in the uncomfortable truths he tells.’ - Francis Wyndham, The New York Review of Books

‘A huge revelation..it’s the darkest possible comedy about the cruelty of the old to the young, vicious and excruciatingly honest. It opened my eyes to a whole realm of experience I have never seen written about. That’s the mark of a masterpiece.’ - Vanora Bennett, The Times

‘In a market where the dullest writers are routinely described as ‘wickedly funny’, he’s the real thing.....These books are hilarious and terrifying, shot through with pain and wisdom and written in the most extraordinary cold, pure style: rockets of wit exploding like flares to highlight the bleakness of the terrain’ - Independent on Sunday

‘Perhaps the very sprightliness of the prose - its lapidary concision and moral certitude - represents the cure for which the characters yearn. So much good writing is in itself a form of health.’ - Edmund White, Guardian

‘Mother’s Milk showcases St Aubyn’s luuminous and acidic prose, as well as his masterful ability to combine the most excruciating emotional pain with the driest comedy’ - Herald Express

‘A fantastically funny, humane and serious novel about the destructive influence of parents upon their children, and the possibility of escaping it.’ - Anthony Quinn, The Daily Telegraph

‘St Aubyn’s books are so precise and crystalline that not a sentence needs editing. Like a finely cut diamond, they shimmer with clarity, comedy and poignancy. At last, St Aubyn’s talent has been recognised. He didn’t win the Man Booker Prize this week but his latest book, Mother’s Milk, made it on to the shortlist and is now No.33 on Amazon’s sales list. Not before time, I say.’ - Mary Ann Sieghart, The Times

‘Mother’s Milk..is extremely sharp, wise, touching and very funny - like all his books.’ - The Guardian

Click here to read a full review by Francis Wyndham in the New York Review of Books.