Patrick is stuck in time, and fittingly, St. Aubyn?s novels treat time as structure: Never Mind, Bad News, and Some Hope are extended vignettes that transpire over a handful of days, while Mother?s Milk stretches over four consecutive Augusts as Patrick?s ever-delightful mother forces him to coordinate the terms of his own disinheritance. At Last returns to the tighter temporal strictures of the first three books as well as to the childhood horrors of Never Mind, underlining some gruesome details and filling in new ones. (David Melrose, amazingly, was even more of a bastard than we thought.) St. Aubyn comes full circle, or perhaps Patrick is just going around in circles. He?s bored of his own grievances, and maybe, At Last suggests, boredom?not therapeutic epiphany, not substance-aided euphoria?is what will set him free.
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