Meg Mason began her career at the Financial Times and The Times of
London. Her work has since appeared in The Sunday Times, The Sydney
Morning Herald and The Sunday Telegraph. She has written humour for
Sunday STYLE, The New Yorker's Daily Shouts and a monthly column
for GQ and been a regular contributor to Vogue, ELLE and marie
claire.
Her first novel You Be Mother (HarperCollins) was published in
2017. Her second, Sorrow and Bliss (HarperCollins) was first
published in Australia in 2020, and the US and UK in 2021. The
actress Emilia Fox narrated the audiobook. Now a bestseller in
Australia, it has now sold in more than 20 countries and will be
published in 16 languages. It has been longlisted for the ABIA
Literary Fiction book of the year, chosen as the GOOP book club
read in March 2021, and been optioned for screen by the US studio,
New Regency, producer of Oscar-winning films including Little
Women, 12 Years a Slave and Birdman.
She lives in Sydney, with her husband and two daughters.
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