![]() Georgia Brough is a writer based in Melbourne. ![]() Her character work is outstanding, and poignant-the hairline fractures, contradictions and nuances of the middle-class family dynamic are painstakingly rendered with moving familiarity and black humour, resulting in a combination as devastating and sharply witty as Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag. Comparisons to Sally Rooney will be made, but Mason’s writing is less self-conscious than Rooney’s, and perhaps more mature. It’s modern love up against the confusing, sad aches of mental illness, with all its highs, lows, humour and misery. Sorrow and Bliss, from Sydney-based writer and journalist Meg Mason, charts the course of their relationship from two awkward teenagers hiding out from family Christmas in London to two adults trying to make it work in the cul-de-sac from hell in Oxford. Hailed as Patrick Melrose meets Fleabag, Meg Masons achingly funny and heartbreakingly tender novel is one of the most talked-about novels of 2021. But by the time Martha finally finds out what’s wrong with her, it’s no use. Martha is not a good wife, but Patrick is devoted to her nonetheless. ![]() Her husband, Patrick, has loved her since he was 14. She’s been sick since she was 17 years old, and a cocktail of pills in varying doses has never made a difference to the lows that leave her bedridden for weeks. ![]()
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