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- It was announced in February 2017 that Benedict Cumberbatch would star in and produce a television adaptation of Edward St Aubyn ’s Patrick Melrose book series, that would air on Showtime in the United States and Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom.
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Patrick Melrose: With Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Maltz. This series depicts how the son of an aristocratic family seeks redemption and recovery.
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It was announced in February 2017 that Benedict Cumberbatch would star in and produce a television adaptation of Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose book series, that would air on Showtime in the United States and Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom.
- Who Is Patrick Melrose?
- What Books Are there?
- Who Is Edward St Aubyn?
- So, Are The Books Based on Real Life?
- How Did St Aubyn Deal with His Traumas?
- What Happened to St Aubyn's Father?
- And His Mother?
- And What Happened to Edward St Aubyn?
Patrick Melrose is the central character in five novels by English author Edward St Aubyn published between 1992 and 2011. He’s a man traumatised by childhood abuse at the hands of his father and his epic story also takes in his descent into drug addiction, his father’s death, his relationship with his mother and the fracturing of his life, his fal...
There are five in total. The first book Never Mind was published in 1992 and is set over the course of one day at a house party in Provence, and includes scenes of a five-year-old boy, Patrick Melrose, being raped by his father. The series charts his life at intermittent periods over the following 35 years – troubled young adulthood; marriage and c...
Edward St Aubyn (pictured, below) was born in 1960 in a part of Cornwall where St Aubyns have lived since the Norman conquest. So you can probably tell that he is quite posh: upper-middle class, public school (Westminster), Oxford. He was a heroin addict when he started at Keble College in 1979. His father, Roger, was an Old Etonian, a lieutenant i...
In the words of St Aubyn himself, all the characters in the Melrose novels are “a conflation or an invention” but “some things are too good to mess about with”. St Aubyn has disclosed that he was raped by his father between the age of three and eight and that he was a heroin addict – crucial facts of his life which are mirrored in the story of the ...
St Aubyn had years of psychoanalysis but says that writing is one of the things to have helped him, alongside the kindness of friends. However, he wrote his first book wrapped only in a towel – the trauma of revisiting his experiences causing him to break out in huge sweats. He also vowed before he wrote it to either get a book published – or to ki...
Roger St Aubyn (whose alter-ego is played by Hugo Weaving, below) did not live to read the Melrose saga. He died in 1986, six years before the publication of Never Mind.
St Aubyn’s mother, Lorna, claimed not to have known about the abuse at the time. After her son opened up about it just prior to the publication of his first book, she allegedly admittedthat she too was raped by Roger. She is also said to have supported her son's literary endeavours – and, he claims, was “proud” of him. In later life Lorna became an...
He still lives in London and has published other books, including Dunbar, a prose retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear. He has also written Lost for Words, a satire on the literary prize giving world. It is perhaps no coincidence that Mother’s Milk was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and lost out…
- Ben Dowell
Benedict Cumberbatch to star as playboy Patrick Melrose in a TV adaptation of Edward St Aubyn’s bestselling novels. The series will air at at 9pm on Sky Atlantic on Sunday 13th May, one day...
Apr 24, 2024 · The 2018 Showtime miniseries is part of Netflix's May 2024 series and movie slate. Netflix’s licensing spree will continue in May 2024, with the critically acclaimed Benedict Cumberbatch series Patrick Melrose set to arrive in the US on May 29th, 2024.
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Watch Patrick Melrose | Netflix. In the years after his father's death, a man reckons with the damage and addictions linked to his affluent upbringing in a toxic family. Watch trailers & learn more.
