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Patrick Melrose

Created by David Nicholls

Showtime2018 65 pages

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

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