From sorrow to bliss: Meg Mason’s novel snapped up by US production company

, in 2019 after grappling for months with a manuscript that was “absolutely rotten to the core”.James Alcock

“I felt like I reached the end of my abilities,” Mason says. “I resigned to my publisher and told her I wasn’t going to publish again. She stunningly said it’s fine, just have a little rest. But in my mind it wasn’t a rest. I was at a loss as to what to do next.”was released in September last year. It is written in short, striking vignettes from the perspective of a 40-year-old woman whose life is starting to unravel. Reviewers have described it as hilarious but brutal; poignant but dark.

“I didn’t even write it thinking it would be a book,” Mason says. “So when I see it in a bookstore window or someone reading it, I can’t help but go, how did you get that?”“I remember describing it to my editor at one point – because it was so different – as the funniest career suicide note I’d ever written,” she says. “I was really surprised when she said no, let’s do it.”, to Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s character in the comedy seriesboth are considered somewhat ‘unlikeable’.

“Martha will tell you the worst about herself. So I hope readers infer that there’s more to her than what’s she’s confessing.”after a competitive auction, brokered by Casarotto Ramsay and HarperCollins Australia. Sorrow and Bliss, by Meg Mason, is a bout a 40-year-old woman grappling with mental illness and a marriage breakdown.to screen,” said says New Regency’s chief executive Yariv Milchan.“I’m sure in normal times this would have happened with trips to the US and meetings with studio heads,” she says. “But this was all done with phone calls. So I haven’t really been able to incorporate this knowledge into my everyday life. Maybe I won’t believe it until I see it in the cinema [or on TV].

BroedeCarmody Let me guess it’s a think piece on how awful the patriarchy is, white supremacists are everywhere, the system is racist, and feminists are silenced in the face of the male dominated entertainment industry and there’s a pay gap, apparently. Stunning and brave.

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From sorrow to bliss: Meg Mason’s novel snapped up by US production companyThe film and TV rights for Sorrow and Bliss have been snapped up by the company behind movies such as Gone Girl, Contagion, and Bohemian Rhapsody. Here's BroedeCarmody's exclusive story. megmason
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