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Perfect by rachel joyce reviews5/27/2023 He realises it is too late after he distracts his frail mother, Diana, from controlling her new Jaguar on the road. Paralysed by anticipation, Byron fears missing the split-second change. His smug classmate, James Lowe, has just informed him that two seconds will be added to the year – but the change in time will not be announced by the government or any other authority. It is 1972 in the conservative English countryside, and Byron Hemmings is finishing up the school year at the elite Winston House. In two juxtaposed stories, Joyce highlights the harrowing nature of routine, and the sacrifices we make to reach seeming perfection. What is the value of two seconds? For one inquisitive eleven-year old Byron, it is “the difference between something happening and not happening.” Rachel Joyce’s second novel Perfect explores the meaning of time in its most condensed form: how even just a moment can completely shatter a person’s life.
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