num_pages: 401
description: The winner of the 2001 Orange Prize serves up a poignant story about an unlikely romance in the Australian bush between Douglas Cheesman, a shy and awkward engineer, and Harley Savage, a plain, large-boned woman who works as a museum curator. 20,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Idea of Perfection
titlecomplete: The Idea of Perfection
genres: Fiction, Australia, Book Club, Romance, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 3460
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Nita B. Kibble Literary Award
publisher: Viking Adult