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“Deeply moving but also darkly funny, Mason has created the sort of story that you savour the last pages of and long for once it's over” ESQUIRE It’s a rare and beautiful thing when an author can break your heart with humour it’s also the quality I admire most in a writer.” THE NEW YORK TIMES “A truly comic novel about love and the despair of depression. It is also impossible not to laugh out loud.” THE GUARDIAN “Mason pulls off something extraordinary in this huge-hearted novel, alchemising an unbearable anguish into something tender and hilarious and redemptive and wise, without ever undermining its gravity or diminishing its pain…It is impossible to read this novel and not be moved. It has a brooding Sally Rooney vibe (but explores a slightly older and more mature slice of life) with exceptional inner monologue and palpable chemistry among the characters.” GOOP “SORROW AND BLISS is a modern love story that’s funny and dark, sharp and tender, hopeful and hard to put down. Yet, without ever playing down her pain, the result is often disconcertingly funny.” THE SPECTATOR

“In Meg Mason’s almost eerily accomplished SORROW AND BLISS, the narrator Martha has suffered from mental illness since her teens. “Meg Mason has achieved something remarkable with her debut novel - Sorrow and Bliss is a raucously funny, beautifully written, emotion-bashing book about love, family and life’s curveballs that leaves you, satisfyingly, with what feels like wisdom forged in fire.” THE TIMES Then just as you’re laughing the hardest, Mason breezily fires off another little arrow that hits its target with such accuracy that you’re left reeling.” INDIA KNIGHT, THE SUNDAY TIMES ”One of the many triumphs of the journalist Meg Mason’s second novel is that it is both fantastically dark and almost unbearably funny, so funny that you often have to put it down for a bit and laugh, out loud, sometimes to the point of tears. “Supremely accomplished, breathtakingly funny and sad.” SOPHIE DAHL “The most wonderful, heartbreakingly gorgeous novel of the year.” ELIZABETH DAY I've never read anything like it and will be pressing it into the hands of every reader I know.” PANDORA SYKES

It will, as the title suggests, shatter your heart, before mending it with infinite love. SORROW AND BLISS is about what happens when your illness pushes everyone away - leaving you with only the sorest parts of yourself for company. “Meg Mason writes about the slow bleed of life-long depression with candour, humour and stark precision.

I think every girl and woman should read it.” GILLIAN ANDERSON While I was reading it, 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 “SORROW AND BLISS is a brilliantly faceted and extremely funny book about depression that engulfed me in the way I'm always hoping to be to be engulfed by novels.