5/22/2023 0 Comments Goodreads sorrow and blissI 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 actually want to die. If you are intending on buying a book for someone as a gift, make it this one. From the first sentence to the last if you read one book this year, make it this one. My heart is so full of so many emotions after reading this utterly perfect and deeply insightful novel. ‘I seem to find it more difficult to be alive than other people.’ 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. 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.
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