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. Or maybe – as she has long believed – there is something wrong with her. Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason 9781474622998 Boeken bol. Maybe she is just too sensitive, someone who finds it harder to be alive than most people. A dazzling novel about modern love up against the confusing, sad aches of mental illness - with all its highs, lows. 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. While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know. While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know. 'Sorrow and Bliss is a brilliantly faceted and extremely funny book about depression that engulfed me in the way Im always hoping to be engulfed by novels. Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. Sorrow and Bliss is a brilliantly faceted and extremely funny book about depression that engulfed me in the way Im always hoping to be to be engulfed by novels.
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