Sorrow and Bliss

A compulsively readable debut novelspiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tenderabout a woman on the edge that combines the psychological insight of Sally Rooney with the sharp humor of Nina Stibbe and the emotional resonance of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied--terre in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she kno ...