The Sparkle Pages
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4.3 • 17 Ratings
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- $23.99
Publisher Description
'Is marriage just a series of texts about where the children are and whether we need milk until one of you dies?'
Susannah Parks - wife, mother, cleaner of surfaces and runner of household - is a viola virtuoso. Except she hasn't picked up a viola for over a decade. She has, however, picked up a lot of Lego, socks, wet towels and other exhibits of mundanity. She has also picked up on the possibility that her husband has lost interest in her. (And frankly, she's not very interested in Susannah Parks either.) But this year, she has resolved to be very interesting. Also thoughtful, useful, cheerful, relevant, self-sufficient, stylish, alluring and intelligent.
In her highly confidential diary, Susannah documents the search for the elusive spark in her marriage, along with all the high and low notes of life with her four beloved children, with her free-spirited (and world famous) best friend Ria, and with Hugh, the man who fills her heart with burning passion and her washing pile with shirts.
And perhaps amid the chaos she might be brave enough to find the missing pieces of herself.
WARNING: CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE, SEX SCENES AND FANTASIES ABOUT HUSBANDS UNPACKING THE DISHWASHER.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Tasmania-based author Meg Bignell brings life after marriage into focus with hilarious and tender accuracy in The Sparkle Pages. Listening to the author herself narrate this comic romance is like hearing a good friend read from her diary—which, after all, is what protagonist Susannah Parks is mainly sharing. Susannah, determined to transcend the dullness of life as a parent and chief whip-cracker, is putting her all into bringing some passion back to the marital home by becoming more sexy and interesting. We facepalmed, we misted up and we replayed a few passages just for another laugh.
Customer Reviews
Funny, sad and heartwarming
From the moment the author introduced us to Susannah sat in her wardrobe, I knew I was going to enjoy this book and relate to the main character! Susannah has those same thoughts that so many of us do, but hearing her talk about them in her head, or writing them in her journal, had me smiling and laughing. There were fun parts, and heart achingly sad parts, but the whole book was such a heartwarming and lovely read.
It was a treat to have the author as narrator and to hear her tell the story in the way it was meant to be read. Meg Bignell is a fantastic narrator with a voice that’s lovely to listen to.
I will definitely buy Meg Bignell’s next book when it’s released and I’m looking forward to it already!