Books like The Idea of Perfection
In the New South Wales country town of Karakarook, Douglas Cheeseman, a shy engineer sent to pull down an old bridge, and Harley Savage, a gawky museum consultant, are drawn to each other.
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Larry's Party
Larry Weller, an ordinary florist from Winnipeg, discovers a passion for garden mazes, and the novel follows him chapter by chapter from 1977 to 1997.
Breathing Lessons
On a single Saturday, Maggie and Ira Moran drive out of Baltimore to a funeral, and Maggie decides to bring their son back together with his ex-wife.
All Adults Here
Astrid Strick, a widow in a small Hudson Valley town, sees an acquaintance killed by a school bus, and decides it is time to tell her grown children something she has kept from them.
The Rosie Project
Don Tillman, a genetics professor who lives by strict routines, designs a questionnaire to find the perfect wife, and then meets Rosie, who fails every criterion and needs his help to find her biological father.
Malgudi Days
Stories of the people of Malgudi, a fictional town in south India: astrologers, postmen, beggars, schoolboys and their small dramas.
Tell Me Everything
In Crosby, Maine, the lawyer Bob Burgess takes on the case of a lonely man suspected of killing his mother, while his friend, the writer Lucy Barton, visits the elderly Olive Kitteridge, who has stories she wants to tell.
Good Material
Andy, a stand-up comedian in London on the edge of forty, is dumped by Jen, the love of his life, and sets out to work out what went wrong.
The Cactus
Susan Green, forty-five, likes her London life tidy and her feelings out of view, until she finds herself pregnant just as her mother dies and leaves the family house to her feckless younger brother.
Swords and Crowns and Rings
Jackie Hanna, a boy who stops growing, and Cushie Moore, the girl he loves, grow up together in a small New South Wales town before the Depression drives them apart.
Tirra Lirra by the River
Nora Porteous, in her seventies, comes home to the Brisbane house where she grew up after decades in Sydney and London, and remembers her life.
Where the Heart Is
Novalee Nation, seventeen and seven months pregnant, is left by her boyfriend at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, and secretly makes the store her home.
The Labyrinth
Erica, whose son is in prison for a terrible crime, moves to a small coastal town to be near him, and sets out to build a labyrinth.