Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

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Mel recommends - If you love a beautifully written descent-into-madness story but crave a more empathetic take on mental health, Sorrow and Bliss is a must-read. Meg Mason delivers a sharp, darkly funny, and deeply moving portrait of a woman navigating love, family, and an undiagnosed mental illness. It’s raw, heartbreaking, and unexpectedly tender—one of those books that makes you feel seen while breaking your heart in the best way

'It is impossible to read this novel and not be moved.

It is also impossible not to laugh out loud ...Extraordinary'

GUARDIAN

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.

So why is everything broken?

Maybe Martha is just someone who finds it harder to be alive than most people. Or maybe - as she has long believed - there is something wrong with her.

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.

'I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realised that I wanted to send it to everyone I know'

ANN PATCHETT

"The most wonderful, heartbreakingly gorgeous novel of the year*

ELIZABETH DAY