'An incredibly funny and devastating debut. 'Nina Stibbe meets Fleabag - Charlotte Heathcote.' - Daily Express I've never read anything like it and will be pressing it into the hands of every reader I know.' - Pandora Sykes It will, as the title suggests, shatter your heart, before mending it with infinite love. Sorrow and Bliss is about what happens when your illness pushes everyone away - leaving you with only the sorest parts of yourself for company. 'Meg Mason writes about the slow bleed of life-long depression with candour, humour and stark precision. Brilliant.' - Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures 'A sharply observed, darkly hilarious and merciless portrait of a thoroughly messed-up family. While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know.' - Ann Patchett
' Sorrow and Bliss is a brilliantly faceted and extremely funny book about depression that engulfed me in the way I'm always hoping to be to be engulfed by novels. Publisher: Orion Publishing Co ISBN: 9781474622974 Number of pages: 352 Weight: 573 g Dimensions: 238 x 160 x 38 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 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.įorced 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. Or maybe - as she has long believed - there is something wrong with her. Maybe she is just too sensitive, someone who finds it harder to be alive than most people.
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? A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022Įveryone 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. Winner of The British Book Awards 2022 Fiction Book of the Year
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