Sorrow and Bliss

Sorrow and Bliss is a 2020 novel by the New Zealand-born writer Meg Mason, an international bestseller that won Fiction Book of the Year at the 2022 British Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Martha Friel knows something is wrong with her, and has since she was seventeen. Approaching forty, as her husband Patrick leaves, she looks back on her eccentric family, her marriage and the illness no one could name, in a story that is both darkly funny and deeply sad.

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