The idea of perfection

Being adored was something she had come to mistrust. She felt adoration to be a small and lovely-looking bomb that could blow up in your face at any time. In the small and eccentric town of Karakarook New South Wales two outsiders meet for the first time. Douglas Cheeseman is an engineer gawky awkward and lonely and Harley Savage a woman altogether too big and abrupt for comfort. Harley is in town to work with the local Heritage Museum and Douglas is there to tear down the town's beloved old Bent Bridge so from day one they are on a collision course; but out of this unpromising union comes something unexpected something even better than perfection.

Claering edition with wrong cover. xv 401 pages ; 20 cm. Kate Grenville ; with an introduction by Evie Wyld. First published in Australia by Pan Macmillan 1999. Perfection Country life Man-woman relationships Perfection Relations entre hommes et femmes Country life. Man-woman relationships. Manners and customs. Perfection. New South Wales Nouvelle-Galles du Sud Australia. New South Wales. Fiction. Psychological fiction. Romance fiction. Romance fiction. Psychological fiction.