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Sorrow and bliss : a novel / Meg Mason.

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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.

Spouses -- Fiction.

Mentally ill women -- Fiction.

Families -- England -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Fiction.

Oxford (England) -- Fiction.

9780063049581 (hc.)

337 p. ; 24 cm.

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

"Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-�-terre in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she knows without a PhD, a baby or both, in a house she hates but cannot bear to leave. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrick--the kind who cooks, throws her birthday parties, who loves her and has only ever wanted her to be happy--has just moved out. And she has nowhere to go except her childhood home: a bohemian (dilapidated) townhouse in a romantic (rundown) part of London--to live with her mother, a minorly important sculptor (and major drinker) and her father, a famous poet (though unpublished) and try to survive without the devoted, potty-mouthed sister who made all the chaos bearable back then, and is now too busy or too fed up to deal with her. But maybe, by starting over, Martha will get to write a better ending for herself--and she'll find out that she's not quite finished after all."--Publisher's description.

Domestic fiction.

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