![]() ![]() ![]() 'Each word, each sentence, each paragraph shines and gleams. Harley Savage is a large, raw-boned, abrasive woman whos been through three husbands and doesn’t want another. Newly single, he’s the sort of man you’d never look at twice. 'An extraordinary comedy of manners.' Guardian Douglas Cheeseman is a big-eared engineer who avoids his own reflection and has bored his wife into leaving him. The Idea of Perfectionwon Britain's prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction, and her other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian's Story, Dark Placesand Joan Makes History. The companion memoir, Searching for the Secret River, was released in 2006. It has received numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her bestselling novel The Secret Riverhas been published in more than twenty countries. Kate Grenvilleis one of Australia's finest writers. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection, they come to understand that what looks like weakness can be the best kind of strength. ![]() ![]() Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfectionis the story of the small town of Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage-two people who seem the least likely in the world to fall in love. Print The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics ![]()
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