![]() ![]() It’s written in the first person in an engaging, likable voice full of mordant wit. The unnatural fact of living is something you must eventually fix. It is that you know you are not supposed to be alive, feeling a tirelessness that powders your bones, a tiredness with so much fear. I do not try and explain that it isn’t that you want to die. Normal people say, I can’t imagine feeling so bad I’d genuinely want to die. The novel charts the disintegration of the marriage in tandem with Martha’s increasingly bizarre behaviour, which goes up and down like a roller coaster, and her quest to get answers to her psychological problems, which include crippling depression, unexplained bouts of sudden anger and suicidal thoughts. But while that marriage lasts considerably longer than her first, it also fails when her husband walks out two days after her 40th birthday party. It’s the story of Martha Russell, a woman who struggles to maintain her sanity in the face of an undiagnosed mental illness.Īfter a short-lived, unconsummated marriage to a “total fuckwit”, she gets married to a childhood friend, Patrick, whom she’s known since she was 16. ![]() Meg Mason’s Sorrow and Bliss is one of those novels that seemed to be everywhere in 2021, earning rave reviews and hitting the bestseller charts around the world. Fiction – paperback Fourth Estate 346 pages 2020. ![]()
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