Almost Perfect
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
It's no big deal to love someone who's perfect . . . The trick is to love someone despite the fact they're not.
With a beautiful house in an upscale Sydney suburb and two successful careers, anyone would think that Mac and Anna have the perfect life. But their marriage is cracking under the strain of infertility. Consumed by her dream of having a child, Anna cannot see how her pain and disappointment are driving Mac away.
Close by, in a beachside suburb, Georgie Reading and her sister-in-law have made their bookstore, The Reading Rooms, an unqualified success - unlike Georgie's love life. In her thirties, with a deadbeat roommate and no romantic prospects in sight, her beloved brother Nick suggests that maybe she's waiting for someone she was never going to find - the mythical perfect man.
Then Liam walks into the bookstore, and Georgie thinks she has finally found just that. Well, he's perfect for her, anyway. . . . At the same time Mac and Anna reach breaking point, putting Mac on a path that will have unforeseen consequences for them all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Australian author Blacklock (Wife for Hire) proves that modern romance isn't necessarily the stuff of chipper escapism in this lukewarm tale about infidelity and infertility. The shopworn plot tracks how the unhappy marriage of corporate attorney William "Mac" and Anna MacMullen is slowly destroyed by Anna's obsession with getting pregnant, which Mac inadvertently counters by impregnating his new mistress after one blazing session of unprotected sex. The mistress, Georgie Reading, is an endlessly compassionate bookseller and a chronic loser in love for whom family means everything. Mac tries to keep Georgie in the dark about his marriage (going so far as to use a different name with her: Liam-one precious letter away from liar), but secrets, Mac learns, are hard to keep. As the novel predictably plays out, Blacklock spends many pages documenting Anna's in vitro-related depression, though Georgie's rigid ethical core is refreshingly realized.
