Sorrow and Bliss
A Novel
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Narrateur(s):
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Emilia Fox
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Auteur(s):
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Meg Mason
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"Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. . . . While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know." — Ann Patchett
“Improbably charming...will have you chortling and reading lines aloud.” — PEOPLE
The internationally bestselling, compulsively readable novel—spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tender—that combines the psychological insight of Sally Rooney with the sharp humor of Nina Stibbe and the emotional resonance of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.
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. When she was seventeen, a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. But 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 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London—to live with her mother, a minorly important sculptor (and major drinker) and her father, a famous poet (though unpublished) and try to survive without the devoted, potty-mouthed sister who made all the chaos bearable back then, and is now too busy or too fed up to deal with her.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.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2023-02-06
Really enjoyed learning about mental health and relationships
A really nice listen. I would recommend this book. It covers topics not usually incorporated in fiction books. Modern and realistic love story
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- Haiku_Queen
- 2024-03-04
Painfully pointless
I made it through a whole four listening hours … waiting patiently for something to happen. It never did. It was abysmal. The characters were unlikeable and pathetic. The main character started an autobiography… of her pathetic life? …which is what this book is. I don’t get it.
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- Kitch Lemsky
- 2025-01-23
Funny quips floating in a sea of misery.
This is a book about living with a serious mental illness--likely borderline personality disorder. Our protagonist is witty and emotionally dysregulated. She is an interpersonal wrecking ball who is suffering. The writing is witty, but this isn't a funny book. If you are interested in an exploration of living with mental illness in the first person...go for it. If you're looking for a romp, keep looking. I stayed to the end, but it wasn't the light- listen- while- I -walk- the -dog I was looking for.
I appreciated the performance...and again, some of the writing.
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