Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer. For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag. 'A triumph. A brutal, hilarious, compassionate triumph.' Alison Bell, The Letdown''I just adored this book. It's timely and dark and poignant and funny. It was filled with such eviscerating compassion and rage; I couldn't get enough of it. I inhaled it in a single weekend, unable to put it down. Meg Mason is a searing talent.' Kate Leaver, The Friendship CureThis novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she doesn't know what it is. Her husband Patrick thinks she is fine. He says everyone has something, the thing is just to keep going.Martha told Patrick before they got married that she didn't want to have children. He said he didn't mind either way...

All Abi was looking for was the perfect family. Instead, she got a perfect mess. A charming, funny and irresistible novel about families, friendship and tiny little white lies. "Here it was. Here was what she wanted. Here was everything that reading Mallory Towers to yourself on a twin bed while eating Muller caramel rice with a bent fork was not. Life in thick layers." The only thing Abi ever wanted was a family. Only not the one she'd got. A mother who spends her days snipping pictures out of OK! in the front room of their ex-council house, where the heat never quite makes it to the hallway. A beloved father and older sister remembered only from photos. So when Abi falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Southfields fast enough, to start all over in Sydney and make her own family. It is not until she arrives, with three-week-old Jude in tow, that Abi realises Stu is not quite ready to be a father after all. And he is the...