Mother's MilkMother's Milk was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the South Bank Literature Award. "So good so fantastically well written, profound and humane it is heart stopping" Observer The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught up in the wreckage of broken promises, child rearing, adultery, and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife Mary consumed by motherhood, his mother in thrall to a New Age foundation, and his young son