Sorrow and Bliss
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by Meg Mason
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for
Fiction 2022
Everyone tells
Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved
every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift, her mother
once said, not everybody gets.
So why is
everything broken? Why is Martha - on the edge of 40 - friendless, practically
jobless and so often sad? And why did Patrick decide to leave?
Maybe she is just
too sensitive, someone who finds it harder to be alive than most people. Or
maybe - as she has long believed - there is something wrong with her. Something
that broke when a little bomb went off in her brain, at 17, and left her
changed in a way that no doctor or therapist has ever been able to explain.
Forced to return
to her childhood home to live with her dysfunctional, bohemian parents (but
without the help of her devoted, foul-mouthed sister Ingrid), Martha has one
last chance to find out whether a life is ever too broken to fix - or whether,
maybe, by starting over, she will get to write a better ending for herself.
'Just read it. It's unforgettable' India Knight, The Sunday Times
'It is impossible to read this novel and
not be moved. It is also impossible not to laugh out loud... Extraordinary' Guardian
'Full of snappy one-liners but, at the
same time, remarkably poignant' Craig
Brown
'Probably the best book you'll read this
year' Mail on Sunday
'Completely brilliant. I think every girl
and woman should read it'
Gillian Anderson
'Exactly the book to read right now, when
you need a laugh, but want to cry' Observer
'The most wonderful, heartbreakingly
gorgeous novel of the year'
Elizabeth Day, author of Magpie
'A raucously funny, beautifully written,
emotion-bashing book' The
Times
Tags: contemporary, fiction, romance, psychology