Sorrow and Bliss : A Novel

By:

Mason, Meg [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 337 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

ISBN:

9781474622998

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Additional physical formats: Reproduction of (manifestation):: Sorrow and bliss.LOC classification:

PR9619.4.M3753 S67

Summary: Pushing away her devoted husband, a once-successful writer moves back into her bohemian childhood home, where she struggles to come to terms with the mental illness that has overshadowed her life.Summary: There's something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. When she was seventeen a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. At forty she spends days unable to get out of bed, and often alienates both strangers and her loved ones with casually cruel remarks. When her husband Patrick-- who has only ever wanted her to be happy-- moves out, she returns to her childhood home: a dilapidated townhouse in a rundown part of London, to live with her minorly important sculptor mother and her famous (but unpublished) father. Maybe, by starting over, Martha will find out that she's not quite finished after all. -- adapted from jacket.Other editions: Reproduction of (manifestation): Mason, Meg. Sorrow and bliss.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Asian University for Women Library	Fiction	Fiction	PR9619.4.M3753.S67 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	01	Available		030275

Total holds: 0

"Originally published in Australia in 2020 by Fourth Estate."--Title page verso.

Pushing away her devoted husband, a once-successful writer moves back into her bohemian childhood home, where she struggles to come to terms with the mental illness that has overshadowed her life.

There's something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. When she was seventeen a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. At forty she spends days unable to get out of bed, and often alienates both strangers and her loved ones with casually cruel remarks. When her husband Patrick-- who has only ever wanted her to be happy-- moves out, she returns to her childhood home: a dilapidated townhouse in a rundown part of London, to live with her minorly important sculptor mother and her famous (but unpublished) father. Maybe, by starting over, Martha will find out that she's not quite finished after all. -- adapted from jacket.

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