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Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason: 7: 'Brain weather'

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7: 'Brain weather'

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Meg Mason's exquisitely funny and devastating portrait of modern love and life.

Written with a dry, Fleabagian wit, Meg Mason's novel explores the ups and downs of modern love and life. Today: Martha  decides to see one more psychiatrist...

Hattie Morahan continues Meg Mason's darkly humorous and heartbreakingly tender novel, hailed as 'Patrick Melrose meets Fleabag;.

Martha Friel is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. So why is Martha - 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: confused and bewildered by her erratic behaviour, Martha decides to consult another psychiatrist...

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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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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