Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. as devastating and sharply witty as Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag.' Bookseller+Publisher 'This is a romance, true, but a real one. Or maybe it will turn out that you can stop loving someone and start again from nothing - if you can find something else to want. It is too late to get the only thing she has ever wanted. He said he didn't mind either way because he has loved her since he was fourteen and making her happy is all that matters, although he does not seem able to do it.īy the time Martha finds out what is wrong, it doesn't really matter anymore. Martha told Patrick before they got married that she didn't want to have children. He says everyone has something, the thing is just to keep going. She knows there is something wrong with her but she doesn't know what it is. This novel is about a woman called Martha. Meg Mason is a searing talent.' Kate Leaver, The Friendship Cure I inhaled it in a single weekend, unable to put it down. It was filled with such eviscerating compassion and rage I couldn't get enough of it. It's timely and dark and poignant and funny. A brutal, hilarious, compassionate triumph.' Alison Bell, The Letdown For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag.
Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer. Dymocks Booklovers voted for it as one of their favourite reads and we hope you enjoy it too! Discover all the winning titles in the 2022 Top 101 list. Something that broke when a little bomb went off in her brain, at 17, and left her changed in a way that no doctor or therapist has ever been able to explain.įorced to return to her childhood home to live with her dysfunctional, bohemian parents (but without the help of her devoted, foul-mouthed sister Ingrid), Martha has one last chance to find out whether a life is ever too broken to fix - or whether, maybe, by starting over, she will get to write a better ending for herself.This book is #50 in our 2022 Top 101. Maybe she is just too sensitive or maybe - as she has long believed - there is something wrong with her.
So why is everything broken? Why is Martha - on the edge of 40 - friendless, practically jobless and so often sad? And why did Patrick decide to leave? A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. Everyone tells Martha Friel she is a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick.
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