THE FIFTH PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL As friends relatives & foes trickle in to pay their final respects to his mother Eleanor Patrick Melrose finds himself questioning whether a life without parents will be the liberation he has so long imagined. Yet as the memorial service ends & the family gathers one last time amidst the social niceties & the social horrors the calms & the rapids Patrick begins to sense a new current: the chance of some form of safety -- at last.