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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The Sparkle Pages
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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.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Michael Joseph , 2019 .
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      Extent: 416p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 16 April 2019.

      ISBN: 9780143790440, 9780143790457
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2023 .
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      Extent: 416p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 2023 
      ISBN: 9781761344039

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.
  • Dyslexic edition.
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