A Taste of Life and Love in Australia by Margaret Lynette Sharp

They're pleasant to sound-read, like wind chimes. Sharp is delicately poetic yet linguistically precise, in these clear-eyed vignettes of love's intricacies found, and crafts her sentences with meticulous attention to metric contour that reflects a mood. Lovely, spare, melodic prose that simply exudes warmth, and simple, pinpoint-focussed stories, with nothing extraneous to distract from the single, clear feeling that Sharp wants to evoke - sometimes a feeling of wistful loss, at others one of ironic, happy bemusement or unexpected contentment, at a serendipitous turn of fate. In addition, she has three blogs on WordPress, which has received many encouraging comments. and India the vast majority of reviews have been positive. Margaret's books have been read and reviewed by readers from Australia, U.S.

She believes that, without doubt, he was her greatest fan and motivator.Įxcelling in English himself, Ron had edited much of her early work. Shortly after the death of her elderly mother whom she cared for, Margaret met and later married Ronald Sharp B.E.M., the creator of the Sydney Opera House Grand Organ.

Her enthusiasm for literature led to further studies, with a particular focus on Short Story Writing

She spent her early years in an inner city suburb of Sydney, moving with her family to a leafy, outer suburb at the age of ten.Ī self-motivated student who loved to seek out information, she matriculated just before her eighteenth birthday. In November 2015 she won a Second Prize, again in the short story section of this same competition, and her title, 'More Than a Mere Bagatelle', has been selected for inclusion in another anthology, 'The Art of Writing'. Her work was highly commended during the the 2014 Hurstville Discovery Festival of Community Arts, and published by Hurstville Council in an anthology entitled 'Write Out Loud'. Margaret Lynette Sharp is an award-winning writer, and the author of over eighty titles, including #1 Amazon Best Seller, 'Longbourn Revisited'.

A Taste of Life and Love in Australia by Margaret Lynette Sharp