Sorrow & Bliss has been celebrated around the world as a gamechanging novel about mental health. The novel follows brilliant, witty and clever Martha as she looks back over her life in order to try to understand the trajectories of her closest relationships, including her struggles with an unspecified mental illness. Meg Mason joins Noelle McCarthy in a conversation about writing to the heart of love and grief.
Most of all, perhaps, this is a novel about the effect we all have on each other, unstable or not, diagnosed or not, especially where love is concerned. – The Guardian

This is a story that will settle in the hearts and guts of anyone whose life has been touched by the devastation of not knowing exactly what is wrong, but hoping against hope that there is some way to fix it. – The Spinoff

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