Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason 

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Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason: 1: 'You must feel so lucky'

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

1: 'You must feel so lucky'

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Meg Mason's achingly funny yet heartbreakingly tender portrait of modern love and life.

Meg Mason's achingly funny and heartbreakingly tender portrait of modern love and life. Today: as her husband leaves, Martha looks back on how they came to this point...

Hailed as 'Patrick Melrose meets Fleabag', Meg Mason's achingly funny and heartbreakingly tender novel is one of the most talked-about novels of 2021.

Martha Friel is clever,  beautiful and funny, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. So why is she now  friendless, practically jobless and broken? And why did Patrick decide to leave?

Now Martha, with the help of her devoted, wise-cracking sister, and dysfunctional, bohemian parents, has one last chance to find out whether she can write a better ending for herself.

Today:  as her husband leaves her, Martha looks back on her bohemian childhood and the bomb that went off in her teenage brain...

Reader: Hattie Morahan is an acclaimed stage and screen actor.
Writer: Meg Mason began her career in journalism, working on The Times, the New Yorker and Vogue. This is her second novel.
Abridger: Antonia Hodgson
Producer: Justine Willett

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Hailed as 'Patrick Melrose meets Fleabag', Meg Mason's achingly funny and heartbreakingly tender novel is one of the most talked-about novels of 2021. Read by Hattie Morahan.

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