- Title:
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Sorrow and Bliss
- Written by:
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Meg Mason
- Read by:
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Hannah Monson
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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8 hours 59 minutes
- Published:
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September 16 2020
- Available Date:
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September 16 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781460784884
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; New Zealand Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/HarperCollins audio
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Price
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Shortlisted BAILEYS Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
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.
This story 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 14 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 tale is set in London and Oxford. It is sad and funny.
'A triumph. A brutal, hilarious, compassionate triumph.
Alison Bell
'I just adored this book. It's timely and dark and poignant and funny. It was filled with such eviscerating compassion and rage; I couldn't get enough of it. I inhaled it in a single weekend, unable to put it down. Meg Mason is a searing talent.'
Kate Leaver, author of The Friendship Cure