Sorrow and Bliss AUDIOBOOK by Meg Mason
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Sorrow and Bliss #AUDIOBOOK
- Narrated by: Hannah Monson
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 21-09-2020
- Language: English
Publisher's Summary
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. For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag.
'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. 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, New York Times best-selling author of Commonwealth)
'I am adding Sorrow and Bliss to my list of the best novels of 2020'. (The Australian)
'Such a good book and so richly warrants the Fleabag reference... So funny, so devastating, it's really spiky and completely compelling, I absolutely loved it'. (Annabel Crabb)
This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she doesn't know what it is. Her husband Patrick thinks she is fine. He says everyone has something, the thing is just to keep going.
Martha told Patrick before they got married that she didn't want to have children. 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.
By the time Martha finds out what is wrong, it doesn't really matter anymore. It is too late to get the only thing she has ever wanted. 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.
The book is set in London and Oxford. It is sad and funny.
Longlisted for the 2020 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the NZ Book Awards
'This is a romance, true, but a real one... as devastating and sharply witty as Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag'. (Books+Publishing)
'A triumph. A brutal, hilarious, compassionate triumph'. (Alison Bell, The Letdown)
'A heartbreaking debut... simultaneously funny and sad-and aching..Witty and stark, Martha's emotionally affecting story will delight fans of Sally Rooney'. (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
©2020 Meg Mason (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers
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