Australian · b. 1978
Meg Mason's "Sorrow and Bliss" (2021) tracks a woman's mental illness through a marriage and a family with wit and devastation. The Australian-British author's novel became a word-of-mouth hit, praised for capturing depression without romanticizing it. Mason worked as a journalist before fiction. Her prose moves quickly; her subject is the long haul of living with a mind that turns against itself.