Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason 

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Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason: 2: 'You are just a bit lost'

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2: 'You are just a bit lost'

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Spiky, sharp and breathtakingly tender, Meg Mason's portrait of the ups and downs of love.

Meg Mason's darkly hilarious and breathtakingly tender novel on the ups and downs of modern love. Today: Martha finds herself married, and  then divorced...

Described 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 and beautiful, a woman 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: Martha's unfortunate marriage to the white jeans and wet-look gel-wearing art dealer, Jonathan Strong...

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

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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