The actress Emilia Fox narrated the audiobook. Her second, Sorrow and Bliss (HarperCollins) was first published in Australia in 2020, and the US and UK in 2021. Her first novel You Be Mother (HarperCollins) was published in 2017. She has written humour for Sunday STYLE, The New Yorker's Daily Shouts and a monthly column for GQ and been a regular contributor to Vogue, ELLE and marie claire. Her work has since appeared in The Sunday Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sunday Telegraph. Meg Mason began her career at the Financial Times and The Times of London. BISAC4 : FICTION / Family Life / Siblings.BISAC3 : FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce.BISAC2 : FICTION / Romance / Contemporary.' Sophisticated and often blackly funny' Sydney Morning Herald sharp, racy and entertaining throughout.' The Saturday Paper Mason's writing has been compared to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag for good reason. an adult coming-of-age novel told with force, breathlessness and a confessional style that makes you feel as if you're sharing intimacies with an old friend. ' Sorrow and Bliss is a book you'll want to devour in one sitting. as devastating and sharply witty as Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag.' Books+Publishing 'This is a romance, true, but a real one. Or maybe it will turn out that you can stop loving someone and start again from nothing - if you can find something else to want. It is too late to get the only thing she has ever wanted. He said he didn't mind either way because he has loved her since he was fourteen and making her happy is all that matters, although he does not seem able to do it.īy the time Martha finds out what is wrong, it doesn't really matter anymore.

Martha told Patrick before they got married that she didn't want to have children. He says everyone has something, the thing is just to keep going. She knows there is something wrong with her but she doesn't know what it is. This novel is about a woman called Martha.

Meg Mason is a searing talent.' Kate Leaver, The Friendship Cure I inhaled it in a single weekend, unable to put it down.

It was filled with such eviscerating compassion and rage I couldn't get enough of it. It's timely and dark and poignant and funny. A brutal, hilarious, compassionate triumph.' Alison Bell, The Letdown For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag. Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer.

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