Edward St. Aubyn

The British writer Edward St. Aubyn talks about his book Moedermelk (Mother’s Milk).

Mother’s Milk is a caustically funny family portrait that examines the constantly shifting bonds between mothers, sons and husbands. In a beautiful and bitter style, comparable to that of Evelyn Waugh and John Updike, St Aubyn dissects in Mother’s Milk the hell of child-rearing, marriage, adultery and euthanasia, demonstrating his masterful ability to combine the most devastating emotional pain with a sharp sense of humour.

“But the most pleasant surprise of this edition was Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn. An unmistakably British outsider in the cosmopolitan list, a double return to literature and probably the funniest and sharpest novel you will read this year.” — Het Parool

“Funny, profound and terribly idiosyncratic.” — Time Out New York
“For once, the hype is justified. Here is indeed a great literary talent.” — The Independent