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Parallel Lines

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Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation

St Aubyn has a natural talent for keeping you on the edge of your seat

Nothing can prepare you for the rich, acerbic comedy of St Aubyn’s world

Parallel Lines depicts characters whose hold on reality is fragile or fraught, but this novel’s hold on reality is sure and convincing and passionate… [It is] dressmaker-deft on adult sibling relationships, on patient-therapist challenges, on the surprises of middle-age, on the pressure to accept our circumstances

CAOILINN HUGHES, author of The Wild Laughter

Witty, rich and provocative. One ravishingly elegant sentence follows another as the stories of these fascinating characters intertwine en route to a poignant and uplifting conclusion. Masterful

BEN HINSHAW, author of Exactly What You Mean

Why did it take me so long to fall in love with the brilliant novels of Edward St Aubyn?

A hurtling ride through the world’s collapse… St Aubyn’s piece makes a neat companion to David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in depicting harried people constantly on the run, on the make, and at the end of their tethers in a time of crumbling civilizations… Some of St Aubyn’s best work yet

‘We set off in opposite directions and walked around the world until we met, and I’m very pleased we have…’ 
 
It is summer. 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 in outrageous and poignant ways, revealing their destinies in a new light. Parallel Lines is a novel about connection, family, love, and the cascading consequences of our choices.

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. 
 ‘We set off in opposite directions and walked around the world until we met, and I’m very pleased we have…’ 
 It is summer. 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 in outrageous and poignant ways, revealing their destinies in a new light. Parallel Lines is a novel about connection, family, love, and the cascading consequences of our choices. 
 PRAISE FOR EDWARD ST AUBYN: 
 ‘Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation’ 
 ALAN HOLLINGHURST 
 ‘I love Edward St Aubyn’DONNA TARTT 
 ‘Nothing can prepare you for the rich, acerbic comedy of St Aubyn’s world’ 
 ZADIE SMITH

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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