SORROW AND BLISS
Meg Mason's novel is a sharp, funny, and quietly devastating portrait of what it means to love someone, and to live inside a mind that refuses to cooperate. Martha is brilliantly drawn, her wit intact even as her inner world splinters around her. Mason writes mental illness without flinching, yet never tips into bleakness for its own sake. The humour catches you off guard, which is precisely the point. It's the kind of book that makes you laugh on one page and sit very still on the next. Relationships, marriage, family, and the slow erosion that goes unnoticed until it isn't, all of it is rendered with real precision and warmth. A deeply human story about the gap between the life we imagine and the one we actually inhabit.
- Author: Meg Mason
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Genre: Family & Relationships
- ISBN: 978-1474622998
- Pages: 368 pages