7/1/2023 0 Comments Sorrow and bliss by meg masonWe jump back and forth between the present day, her courtship with her husband Patrick and her childhood with her beloved sister, chaotic parents and holier than thou rich Aunt Winsome. 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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