5/10/2023 0 Comments Meg mason sorrow and bliss![]() Now in her 40s her life has reached a crisis.ĭevoted husband Patrick, who has only ever wanted her to be happy, has just moved out. Since then, she’s consulted doctor after doctor, the diagnosis different each time but always with the same outcome: take these tablets and don’t get pregnant. I stayed there for days, coming down for food and the bathroom, and eventually just the bathroom. She’s been on antidepressants ever since, struggling through episodes which leave her seeking refuge in dark spaces for many weeks.Īs soon as I got home, I went upstairs and got into the space under my desk and sat still like a small animal that instinctively knows it’s dying. It began at the age of 17 when “ a little bomb went off in my brain”. ![]() ![]() Sorrow and Bliss is a tale of Martha Friel and the illness that defined her life. “An incredibly funny and devastating debut,” said The Guardian “… fantastically dark and almost unbearably funny,” said The Times reviewer while The Sunday Times described the book as a “heart-thuddingly moving portrait of family, marriage and chronic illness.”īut other readers found the humour irritating and were frustrated by the author’s radio silence on the precise nature of her narrator’s medical condition. Widely praised for its sensitive handling of a woman’s mental health issues, Sorrow and Bliss is also a novel that has sharply divided opinions among its readers.įans of Meg Mason’s novel thought it was funny, tender and original. ![]()
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