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Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set between London, Cap d'Antibes, Big Sur, and a r...

After the scorched earth of the Melrose books, St. Aubyn returns with a gentler satire, Double Blind.

St. Aubyn’s new novel, “Double Blind,” tells two love stories against the backdrop of brain-mapping, biochemistry, botany and the ethics of placebos.

In his five-part series about Patrick Melrose, an upper-class victim of sexual abuse by his father, Edward St Aubyn set a high bar for tragi-comic fiction. Popularised in a TV adaptation starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the sardonic, troubled central character, these books marked St Aubyn out as a latter day heir to Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell, by way of William Burroughs. Double Blind shifts the dial, but remains within touching distance of his old beat. At its core are issues of mental health, impending death, addiction and family life. As if these were not weighty enough, St Aubyn ...

The actor will narrate the audiobook of 'Patrick Melrose' author's new novel. Benedict Cumberbatch is teaming up with Edward St. Aubyn once more. The Double Blind, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively announce. Set between London, Cap d'Antibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex, Aubyn's novel centers on three friends Olivia, Lucy and Francis and their inner circle and follows them through a year of transformation. Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux describes  Double Blind as an "expansive, playful, and compassionate" novel that "investigates themes of inheritance, determinism,...