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Perfect by Rachel Joyce [Joyce, Rachel] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Perfect about?
In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James was the cleverest boy at school. But how could time change? The steady movement of hands around a clock was as certain as their golden futures.Then Byron's mother, late for the school run, makes a devastating mistake. Byron's perfect world is shattered. Were those two extra seconds to blame? Can what follows ever be set right?Rachel Joyce is the author of the international bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. She is also the award-winning writer of more than twenty plays for BBC Radio 4. She started writing after a twenty-year acting career, in which she performed leading roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company and won multiple awards. Rachel Joyce lives with her family on a Gloucestershire farm.
Who reads Perfect?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Rachel Joyce [Joyce, Rachel]
- Publisher
- Doubleday Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781471354410
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.54 / 5 (8,359 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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