Book Review: Perfect by Rachel Joyce
The addition of time terrified Byron Hemmings. At eleven years old he was an imaginative boy. He lay awake, picturing it happen, and his heart flapped like a bird. He watched the clocks, trying to catch them at it. 'When will they do it?' he asked his mother.In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knows this because James Lowe has told him and James is the cleverest boy at school. But how can time change? The steady movement of hands around a clock is as certain as their golden futures. Then Byron's mother, late for the school run, makes a devastating mistake. Byron's perfect world is shattered. Were those two extra seconds to blame? Can what follows ever be set right?
With the story alternating in time between 1972 and the present, Rachel Joyce's Perfect presents a set of well formed characters developed around the words - being Perfectionist. The book is riveting in its capability to explore varied facets of human emotions - of attachments and detachments, of loneliness and grief, of love and loss, of expectations and failures. With fluid language, well developed characters and a redemptive ending, Perfect is indeed a touching tale.
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Perfect: Good and Touching. I had received the review copy from Random House India. Thank you Random House India for giving me this opportunity. You can buy this book at amazon or at Flipkart in case you live in India.
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