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    OLDIE NOVEL OF THE MONTH Oxford blues YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM Sorrow and Bliss

    Jun 30, 2021 3 minutes
    By Meg Mason

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson £14.99

    Love and depression in the age of emojis: Meg Mason’s second novel is an education in how all that works.

    The unhappy first-person protagonist, Martha, sends her sister, Ingrid, emojis of ‘the bathtub, the three-pin plug and the coffin’. Ingrid (the fertile one of the two) sends Martha ‘the eggplant, the cherries and the open scissors’.

    But is it love? And is it depression? Martha’s ‘43-day starter marriage’, as

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