Five minutes with: Meg Mason
Meet Meg Mason, author of the Women’s Prize 2022 longlisted novel Sorrow and Bliss. The Guardian said ‘even the darkest material...
Orion
Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets.
So why is everything broken? Why is Martha – on the edge of 40 – friendless, practically jobless and so often sad? And why did Patrick decide to leave?
Maybe she is just too sensitive, someone who finds it harder to be alive than most people. Or maybe – as she has long believed – there is something wrong with her. Something that broke when a little bomb went off in her brain, at 17, and left her changed in a way that no doctor or therapist has ever been able to explain.
Forced to return to her childhood home to live with her dysfunctional, bohemian parents (but without the help of her devoted, foul-mouthed sister Ingrid), Martha has one last chance to find out whether a life is ever too broken to fix – or whether, maybe, by starting over, she will get to write a better ending for herself.
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Maggie Shipstead
Elif Shafak
Meg Mason
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Louise Erdrich
Ruth Ozeki
Violet Kupersmith
Kirsty Capes
Morowa Yejidé
Rachel Elliott
Maggie Shipstead
Catherine Chidgey
Lulu Allison
Meg Mason
Ruth Ozeki
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Charlotte Mendelson
Dawnie Walton
Elif Shafak
Miranda Cowley Heller
Louise Erdrich
Leone Ross
Barbara Kingsolver
Ruth Ozeki
Susanna Clarke
Maggie O'Farrell
Tayari Jones
Kamila Shamsie
Naomi Alderman
Lisa McInerney
Ali Smith
Eimear McBride
A.M. Homes
Madeline Miller
Téa Obreht
Barbara Kingsolver
Marilynne Robinson
Rose Tremain
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lionel Shriver
Andrea Levy
Valerie Martin
Ann Patchett
Kate Grenville
Linda Grant
Suzanne Berne
Carol Shields
Anne Michaels
Helen Dunmore
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