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The Idea of Perfection

Kate Grenville

The Idea of Perfection

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The Idea of Perfection is a funny and touching romance between two people who've given up on love. Set in the eccentric little backwater of Karakarook, New South Wales, pop. 1374, it tells the story of Douglas Cheeseman, a gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, and Harley Savage, a woman altogether too big and too abrupt for comfort. Harley is in Karakarook to foster 'Heritage', and Douglas is there to pull down the quaint old Bent Bridge. From day one, they're on a collison course. But out of this unpromising conjunction of opposites, something unexpected happens: sometimes even better than perfection.

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Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN-13
9780330523097
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Romance between unlikely peopleSmall-town lifeSelf-acceptance and second chances

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