Author Meg Mason, 44, began her writing career as a journalist for the Financial Times, Vogue and the New Yorker. Her first book, a memoir of motherhood called Say It Again in a Nice Voice, was published in 2012. She wrote her first novel, You Be Mother, in 2017. Her latest – Sorrow and Bliss, a dark yet comic story about lifelong mental illness – recently won the British book award for fiction book of the year and has been shortlisted for this year’s Women’s prize, to be announced on 15 June. Mason was born in New Zealand, moved to Australia as a teenager and then to the UK straight after university. She is now settled in Sydney with her husband and children.
