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With an introduction by Evie Wyld The Idea Of Perfection by Kate Grenville is a funny and touching romance between two people who've given up on love. "Grenville makes awkward atmospheres and fumbling encounters wonderfully vivid. Read it & cringe" (Times).Douglas Cheeseman is a big-eared engineer who avoids his own reflection and has bored his wife into leaving him. Newly single, he's the sort of man you'd never look at twice. Harley Savage is a large, raw-boned, abrasive woman who's been through three husbands and doesn't want another. Neither character seems to be a prime subject for a burgeoning romance. But from the beginning, they are on a collision course and out of this unpromising conjunction of opposites, something unexpected happens: sometimes even better than perfection."From these two reticent characters, besieged by two lifetimes of regret, doubt and dismay, Grenville manufactures an extraordinary comedy of manners, made all more powerful by her own reticence as a writer." - The Guardian UK"...the way the narrative coaxes these two awkward characters together is perfect in both its restraint and its careful observation of human frailty... as usual, Grenville’s pros

Who reads The Idea of Perfection?

Author

Grenville, Kate

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101173206

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.61 / 5 (53 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14