![]() ![]() It’s told in the first person by Martha, a woman with a (for most of the book) undiagnosed mental health disorder and is broadly a story of her messy life, structured around the breakdown of her second marriage. ![]() ![]() Sorrow and Bliss is a book that resists a neat and tidy description. So, when at first it felt slightly different to what I expected, I admit to a brief worry before realising that I was in fact falling in love with it nonetheless. Due to the hype, I felt certain that once I started reading it (i.e. Just as I thought I couldn’t wait a second longer, I discovered my delicious mother furtively trying to hurry a purchase through at the Waterstones till while I was browsing the buy-one-get-one-half-price table. Although Mason herself says she wrote it pretty much in secret, it has been received with enthusiasm from reviewers and fellow authors to the extent that, despite a self-imposed book buying ban and a general dislike for heavier, more expensive hardbacks, I was desperate to read it. Meg Mason’s Sorrow and Bliss is not a book that has arrived quietly. Book Review | Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason ![]()
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