Bright spark

meg Bignell tells it like it is. The Tasmanian novelist says she started blogging to save her sanity and reassure other young mothers that they weren’t alone in the battle against the mind-numbing mundanity of parenthood. “I’d always written things down,” she explains. “I wrote a few terrible manuscripts in my angsty, know-it-all twenties. But then life got really busy when I had kids, so I put all my material on disks and chucked them into a drawer to forget about it so I could concentrate on being a mother, make pies and perfect birthday cakes and whatever else I imagined a model mum does.”

But the urge to commit to paper, or at least screen, was still lurking in the background and eventually Meg returned to her hobby in the form of her blog,Megoracle, which led to her debut novel,The Sparkle Pages. A witty memoir on the