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From sorrow to bliss: Meg Mason’s novel snapped up by US production company – Sydney Morning Herald
New Regency, the company behind films such as 12 Years a Slave, Gone Girl and Bohemian Rhapsody, has bought the rights to Sorrow and Bliss.
I was writing in this sort of ecstatic, furious way, Mason says. It was all over as far as I was concerned. I could put in anything that I wanted. The language is really straight and economical. One bookseller told me they were crying so hard in the bath by the end that they pulled a muscle and couldnt get out of the bath. So I hope its surprising in that way.
Bookstores have sold almost 10,000 copies of Sorrow and Bliss since September, according to Nielsen Bookscan. Piblisher HarperCollins says…
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