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The Sparkle Pages

By: Meg Bignell
Narrated by: Meg Bignell
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 '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. Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Marriage Heartfelt Feel-Good Funny Tear-jerking Witty
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Easy to listen to, relatable, funny and also cried! Loved it! Great narration by the author and loved hearing an Australian accent.

Loved it!

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So true, honest and raw thoughts on motherhood. I even felt quite depressed in the beginning of the book. Motherhood is so consuming and can stomp all over those pre-children dreams. Through the sadness though, bursts of laughter, moments that are truly relateable.
So real and warming.
Well done Meg Bignell. This was my first book of hers and will not be my last.

laughed and cried

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I really loved this book. It was hilarious and reflects the realities of marriage. Narrated so well. Enjoy!

Fantastic read

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What a gifted author Meg Bignell is.

A beautifully engaging story with characters you’d love to meet in real life.

I really enjoyed this book, thank you.

Delightful

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I thoroughly enjoyed so well written and narrated. I thought pah I won’t cry but I did. Haven’t enjoyed a book so much since I finished Robert Galbraith series of detectives. Hope a follow up comes soon.

Naughty but nice

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