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The Sparkle Pages
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Meg Bignell
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By:
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Meg Bignell
About this listen
'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.
©2019 Meg Bignell (P)2019 Penguin Random House AustraliaWhat listeners say about The Sparkle Pages
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- Jen birkhead
- 12-05-2019
Loved it!
Easy to listen to, relatable, funny and also cried! Loved it! Great narration by the author and loved hearing an Australian accent.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-05-2021
laughed and cried
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.
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- Mary
- 21-05-2021
Fantastic read
I really loved this book. It was hilarious and reflects the realities of marriage. Narrated so well. Enjoy!
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- Tiffany
- 07-08-2021
Delightful
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.
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- Lynn
- 24-09-2019
Naughty but nice
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.
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- Zoe Broadway
- 07-09-2019
Sooo good! 😊
fun, honest, real, alive! loved it.
narrator made it come alive , thanks! looking forward to the next one.
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- Janet Slape.🤣🤣
- 14-11-2019
Lots of Fun.
Such a fun story. Made me laugh so many times. And so sad in others. I can understand how wanting more in your marriage can be difficult. She has described feelings so brilliantly that you can feel them .
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- Deirdre E Siegel
- 25-07-2022
Fabulously fun
Hugh, Hannah, Suzanna, Rhea are very talented, so Elloise, Raffety, Jimmy, Mary-Lou, make what I imagine children, determination, family, friends, marriage and mayhem, in real time looks like.
Thank you Meg Bignell for a third book bound in brilliance :-)
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- Anonymous User
- 08-09-2019
Thank you
Meg , I am writing this directly to you, it is the least I could do .
Thank you , I have laughed , I have cried , I have been cross and I have been there...
I loved your narration , and I am off to buy my own Sparkle Pages - as a reminder to live✨
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- Elfka22
- 02-09-2019
Not funny really
Liked it, cried more than laughed, maybe because it brought back some memories that many might find resonating in their life.
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