{"product_id":"9781474622998-sorrow-and-bliss","title":"Sorrow and Bliss","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe funny, heart-breaking, bestselling novel that became a phenomenon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling novel about modern love up against the confusing, sad aches of mental illness - with all its highs, lows, humour and misery.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE PHENOMENAL \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER AND UNIVERSALLY BELOVED WORD-OF-MOUTH SENSATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Completely brilliant. I think every girl and woman should read it'\u003cbr\u003eGillian Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Exactly the book to read right now, when you need a laugh, but want to cry'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A raucously funny, beautifully written, emotion-bashing book'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo why is everything broken? Why is Martha - on the edge of forty - friendless, practically jobless and so often sad? And why did Patrick decide to leave?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaybe 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. 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