Audiobook10 hours
The Idea of Perfection
Written by Kate Grenville
Narrated by Odette Joannidis
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Set in the eccentric backwater of Karakarook (pop. 1374) New South Wales, this is the story of Douglas Cheeseman, a shy and clumsy engineer with jug-ears who meets Harley Savage, a woman who is known for being rather large and abrupt.
Douglas is there to pull down a quaint old bridge and Harley aims to foster heritage. They are clearly on a collision course - but when they meet they are unaware that something unexpected is going to happen...
Douglas is there to pull down a quaint old bridge and Harley aims to foster heritage. They are clearly on a collision course - but when they meet they are unaware that something unexpected is going to happen...
Author
Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville is a prize-winning fiction writer whose novels include Lilian's Story, Dark Places and the Orange Prize award winning novel The Idea of Perfection. She lives in Sydney with her husband, son and daughter.
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Reviews for The Idea of Perfection
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A beautifully written and evocative story. The characters are both flawed and colourful and the narration is excellent.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Sharp as a knife. Grenville's characters are portrayed with clarity and occasional cruelty. Life in a small town, insecurities, personalities and personal historiesall are brought into focus.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Terrible narration, spoiled the book for me. Don't listen, read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book and very well read, I enjoyed it tremendously
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Loved getting inside the heads of this group of quirky characters and would have enjoyed seeing further into their stories.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Subtle, reticent, but filled with superfluous flights of whimsy and way too light on actual substance for my liking.
Despite its length it managed to leave two key plot questions unanswered: who or what caused the fire in Freddy Chang’s butcher shop, and just what became of Freddy himself? Perhaps I fell asleep during that part.