The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics

Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfection is the story of the small townof Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harvey Savage-two people who seem the leastlikely in the world to fall in love. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a woman dangerously haunted by theidea of perfection, they come to understand that what looks like weakness can be the best kindof strength.