![]() ![]() ![]() Roasted Cauliflower with Spinach and Lentil Salad from the Art Gallery of NSW cafe. Narrator Martha’s distinct world view is what sets the book apart: her blunt, wry and insightful assessments of herself, others and the world have drawn comparisons to Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation. It is readable yet recommendable heart-rending but hilarious. Part of the success of Sorrow and Bliss is the way it straddles the line between literary and commercial. And awards season has kicked off with Sorrow and Bliss longlisted this week for the Australian Book Industry Association’s Literary Fiction Book of the Year award. There’s also a screen adaptation on the horizon after the production company behind 12 Years a Slave, Gone Girl and Bohemian Rhapsody bought the film and TV rights earlier this month. There was a hotly contested auction for international rights for the novel, which was released in the US and Canada this month and will be published in the United Kingdom in June. HarperCollins head of fiction publisher Catherine Milne talks about the “bookish women” who have helped drive the novel’s success - endorsements from Marieke Hardy, Emily Maguire, Caroline Overington, Anna Spargo-Ryan, Annabel Crabb - not to mention a blurb from American literary darling Ann Patchett about wanting to send the novel to everyone she knows.Īnd the momentum is gathering. ![]()
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