Sorrow and Bliss: The Instant Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller

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Synopsis
'A brilliantly faceted and extremely funny book that engulfed me in the way I am always hoping to be engulfed by novels. 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'Ann Patchett'A sharply observed, darkly hilarious and merciless portrait of a thoroughly messed-up family. Patrick Melrose meets Fleabag. Brilliant'Clare Chambers 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-à-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.Because there's something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. Countless doctors, endless therapy, every kind of drug later, she still doesn't know what's wrong, why she spends days unable to get out of bed or alienates both strangers and her loved ones with casually cruel remarks.And now 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- to live with her mother, a minorly important sculptor (and major drinker) and her father, a famous poet (though unpublished) and try to survive without the devoted, potty-mouthed sister who made all the chaos bearable back then, and is now too busy or too fed up to deal with her.But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.
Copyright:
2020

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
352 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781474623001
Related ISBNs:
9781474622998
Publisher:
Orion
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Copyrighted By:
The Printed Page Pty Ltd
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Romance, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Psychology, Humor
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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