Book summary

Winner of the Orange Prize in Britain, Kate Grenville's THE IDEA OF PERFECTION is set in a small Australian town where two awkward misfits--Douglas, an engineer, and Harley, a museum curator--find themselves at odds until, unexpectedly, they fall in love. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

Media reviews

"There's a smile--if not an outright belly laugh--on every page of this delicious comic novel....Wonderful entertainment: a cockeyed romance that will have you cheering for all of these unlikely, wayward lovers."