Sorrow and Bliss
New Zealand novelist. Won the British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year in 2022.
Sorrow and Bliss is a 2021 novel by Meg Mason. It won the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year in 2022.
In family saga
On 2 of the 12 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Meg Mason
- First published
- 2021
- Length
- 368 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2022
- British Book Awards Fiction winner, 2022
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Family saga, Psychological, Feminist
Is Sorrow and Bliss worth reading?
2 of the 12 best-of lists it could have made include it: the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year and the Women's Prize for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (The Bookseller, 2022) | Winner | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2022) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Sorrow and Bliss
The edition we link to is the W&N paperback (2022), 368 pages.
- Publisher
- W&N (paperback, 2022)
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9781474622998
How critics, prizes and readers rate Sorrow and Bliss
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 42% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work