5/22/2023 0 Comments Sorrow and bliss by meg mason![]() Sorrow and Bliss is the latest addition to the short list of "books that make me feel like laughing and crying in equal measure". Eleanor Oliphant is one that did it for me. It's not often that books this charming and irreverently funny are also as sad, moving and hard-hitting. “Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. 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. Maybe she is just too sensitive, someone who finds it harder to be alive than most people. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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