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Perfect Hardback - 2013

by Rachel Joyce

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RACHEL JOYCE is the author of the international beststeller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as well as an 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 lives in Gloucestershire on a farm with her family.

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  • Title Perfect
  • Author Rachel Joyce
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Doubleday Canada, Canada
  • Publication date 2013-11-05
  • ISBN 9780385677721 / 0385677723
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Perfect radiates its own natural, understated foreboding, and even its title contributes to the sense of dread. . . . The importance of the extra two seconds is carefully withheld until the novel’s end so that Perfect can consider what role the power of destiny has played in this story. Of all the secrets that emerge late in this touching, eccentric book, that is the most confounding one of all.”
—The New York Times

“A tender second novel by the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry . . . the core of this delicate novel is the tender relationship between mother and son . . . the power of Joyce’s prose lies in small, astute observations . . . these subtle touches give the book an intense, slightly mesmeric feel. . . . Tense and engrossing,”
Sunday Times
 
“Diana herself is faultless. She is to Perfect what Harold Fry was to [The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry]: a fully rounded hero, someone to fall in love with and argue about, cherish and admonish, as though she were real. . . . If only there were more novelists like Rachel Joyce.”
Telegraph
 
“This book is hard in every sense. . . . But persevere and plough on alongside Byron (who you’ll find you want to stay with, as if by continuing to read him you might be able to protect him somehow, or at least keep him company), and the reward is a redemptive ending of such tenderness that after 300-odd pages of darkness you will end up grinning dippily and recommending this wild, searching book to everyone you know.”
The Times
 
“A near flawless novel of emotional truth.”
Evening Standard
 
“The author of last year's biggest selling debut The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry returns with a very different but equally captivating novel. . . . This is a heartbreaking story, full of compassion, that unfolds gently but relentlessly against the backdrop of the suburban '70s. Perfect confirms [Rachel Joyce] as a major new voice.” –The Bookseller, Book of the Month July 2013

“Brilliantly realized... a powerful study of grief, loss, guilt, depression, mental illness - and ultimately the power of love - which grips the reader on every page.”
Daily Mail (UK)

About the author

RACHEL JOYCE is the author of the international beststeller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as well as an 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 lives in Gloucestershire on a farm with her family.

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