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Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason: 9: 'This is everyone's tragedy'

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

9: 'This is everyone's tragedy'

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Meg Mason's achingly funny and heartbreakingly tender novel on modern life and love.

Hatttie Morahan continues Meg Mason's achingly funny and heartbreakingly tender novel on modern life and love. Today: home-truths, a reconciliation and moving on...

Hailed as 'Patrick Melrose meets Fleabag', Meg Mason's achingly funny and heartbreakingly tender novel, read by Hattie Morahan.

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: after some home-truths and a reconciliation, Martha moves on...

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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