Sorrow and Bliss av Meg Mason

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION <br/> <br/>THE BOOK EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT <br/> <br/>'Just read it. It's unforgettable' <br/>India Knight, The Sunday Times <br/> <br/>'It is impossible to read this novel and not be moved. It is also impossible not to laugh out loud... Extraordinary' <br/>Guardian <br/> <br/>'Full of snappy one-liners but, at the same time, remarkably poignant' <br/>Craig Brown <br/> <br/>'Probably the best book you'll read this year' <br/>Mail on Sunday <br/> <br/>'Completely brilliant. I think every girl and woman should read it' <br/>Gillian Anderson <br/> <br/>'Exactly the book to read right now, when you need a laugh, but want to cry' <br/>Observer <br/> <br/>'The most wonderful, heartbreakingly gorgeous novel of the year' <br/>Elizabeth Day, author of Magpie <br/> <br/>'A raucously funny, beautifully written, emotion-bashing book' <br/>The Times <br/> <br/>'I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realised that I wanted to send it to everyone I know' <br/>Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House <br/> <br/> 'One of those read it in one sitting and tell all your friends kind of books' <br/>Evening Standard <br/> <br/>'Patrick Melrose meets Fleabag. Brilliant' <br/>Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures <br/> <br/>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. A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. <br/> <br/>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? <br/> <br/>Maybe she is just too sensitive, someone who finds it harder to be alive than most people. Or maybe - as she has long believed - there is something wrong with her. 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. <br/> <br/>Forced to return to her childhood home to live with her dysfunctional, bohemian parents (but without the hel