

Sorrow and Bliss
A Novel
Author: Meg Mason
Narrator: Emilia Fox
Unabridged: 10 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 02/09/2021
Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Humorous Fiction, Women
Author: Meg Mason
Narrator: Emilia Fox
Unabridged: 10 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 02/09/2021
Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Humorous Fiction, Women
Meg Mason is a journalist whose career began at the Financial Times and the Times of London. Her work has since appeared in Vogue, Elle, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Sunday Times (UK), and the New Yorker’s Daily Shouts. Born in New Zealand, she now lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two daughters.
What I enjoyed most about Meg Mason’s “Sorrow and Bliss” is that she portrayed mental illness in its complicated and realistic light. In “Sorrow and Bliss”, the main character, Martha, is a true queen of self-sabotaging. She possesses awareness though. She understands she’s messing up, and she knows......more
trying to sit at the cool kids table (reading a book i saw on instagram) this was often so upsetting as to be totally unreadable but it ended nicely. normally i don't like books like that but this was...fine. even if it took me approximately 11 tries to read it. bottom line: and we all lived happily ev......more
5★ “But apparently I just exist in terms of my relationship to other people now . . . Days later, Ingrid . . . sent a photo of her hand, holding a Starbucks cup. Instead of asking her name, the person who took her order had just written LADY WITH PRAM.” Martha’s sister, Ingrid, is a new mother. Martha......more
To bardzo dojrzała i niewygodna powieść. Historia, w której depresja i niezadowolenie odgrywają główne role, bo praktycznie tylko z nich składa się główna bohaterka. Przeczytałam ją tak naprawdę na dwa razy. Po pierwszych 140 stronach nie chciało mi się do niej wracać i zostawiłam ją na 3 tygodnie.......more