Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason 

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Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason: 6: 'Cyclonic, becoming rough or very rough'

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

6: 'Cyclonic, becoming rough or very rough'

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Meg Mason's darkly humorous and achingly tender novel about a very modern romance.

Meg Mason's whipsmart and heartbreakingly tender novel about the highs and lows of modern love. Today: married life turns from bliss to sorrow...

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 and beautiful, a woman who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. So why is she - on the edge of 40 - 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: married life turns from bliss to sorrow...

Reader: Hattie Morahan
Writer: Meg Mason 
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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