"Meg Mason's unflagging comic impulses drive this novel about the havoc a woman's mental illness wreaks on her marriage." - Shelf Awareness (starred review) Martha’s voice is acerbic, witty, and raw." - Booklist (starred review) "Exploring the multifaceted hardships of mental illness and the frustrating inaccuracy of diagnoses, medications, and treatments, Sorrow and Bliss is darkly comic and deeply heartfelt. Witty and stark, Martha’s emotionally affecting story will delight fans of Sally Rooney.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) debut, an account of a woman’s self-discovery amid her struggle with mental illness. Yet it still manages to be sensitive and heartfelt, and to offer a nuanced portrayal of what it means to try to make amends and change, even when that involves 'start again from nothing.'” - The Guardian "An incredibly funny and devastating debut. enlivened, often, by a madcap energy. I think every girl and woman should read it." - Gillian Anderson 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 "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 engulfed by novels. Maybe there is a different story to be written, if Martha can work out where to begin. It feels like the end but maybe, by going back, Martha will get to start again. With Patrick gone, the only place Martha has left to go is her childhood home, to live with her chaotic parents, to survive without Ingrid, the sister who made their growing-up bearable, who said she would never give up on Martha, and who finally has. There has been since a little bomb went off in her brain, at seventeen, leaving her changed in a way no doctor or drug could fix then and no one, even now, can explain-why can say she is so often sad, cruel to everyone she loves, why she finds it harder to be alive than other people. But she must now that her loving husband Patrick has just left.īecause there’s something wrong with Martha. Now, she lives in a gated community in Oxford that she hates and can’t bear to leave. Now, she creates internet content for no one.
She used to work at Vogue and was going to write a novel. The internationally bestselling, compulsively readable novel-spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tender-that combines the psychological insight of Sally Rooney with the sharp humor of Nina Stibbe and the emotional resonance of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. 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 "Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Winner of the Book of the Year (Fiction) at the British Book Awards
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