
It had a lot to live up to and in some ways I approached it with a little trepidation, worried that it wouldn’t be as good, but it didn’t disappoint at all.

‘Time had been splintered and everything was different.’Ĭoming soon after her bestselling The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (avid Bookmunchers may recall that I picked that as my favourite of 2012), Perfect is Rachel Joyce’s second novel. Byron watches for the moment it happens and when he finally sees it, his reaction sparks a chain of events more devastating than anyone could have predicted:

Is two seconds enough to change your life? In 1972 Byron’s school friend, James, tells him that time needs to be changed, that it’s out of kilter with the movement of the earth and two seconds need to be added.
