Sophie, Standing There

By Meg Mason

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Sophie, Standing There is a 2026 novel by the New Zealand-born writer Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss. Sophie Pattison is a sound technician at London book festivals whose job is to stay unnoticed while authors take the stage. After her husband ends their marriage, she is living alone, estranged from her best friend and finding comfort only in the novels of a famous author, Lilac Dunne. When Lilac comes to a festival Sophie is working, the friendship she has imagined meets the real person.

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