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from SheTreadsSoftly

Let me start with an affirmation: Perfect by Rachel Joyce is every bit as good as her debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.Perfect is set in Britain and follows two different storylines. In the first it is 1972 and 11-year-old Byron Hemmings has several things he is concerned about....

from tloeffler

Byron Hemmings and James Lowe are great friends. Life goes along nicely until one day, when an accident happens that changes everything. The chapters alternate between 1972 and now, so we watch as consequence leads to consequence, and wonder how the current state got to be that way. Well-written,...

from lisa875

When I first got this book, I said, "uh-oh" because I thought it was going to be like another book I got from Library Thing recently called The Husband's Secret. I loved the Husband's Secret but I didn't want another book exactly like it. Even the covers were similar. One is black and one is whit...

from NeedMoreShelves

After becoming a fan of Joyce's work through her first novel, I eagerly anticipated the chance to read her second. It was quickly clear that in this book, the author is telling a very different story. In Harold Fry, the reader is given a sense almost from the beginning that THIS story, no matter ...

from whitreidtan

Last year's novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, was a lovely read, capturing my imagination and that of everyone to whom I recommended it. In Perfect, Rachel Joyce's second novel, she revisits some familiar themes, forgiveness, redemption, and connection, although the novel itself is ve...