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When those two seconds appear to result in a car accident involving Diana Hemmings’ perfect Jaguar, Byron worries incessantly about the consequences and, despite his best efforts to follow the meticulous plans James makes, his known universe begins to unravel. He understands it is necessary, but can’t shake a feeling of terror. His best friend (and the smartest boy in school), James Lowe has told him two seconds are to be added to time. In the heat of the 1972 English summer, Byron Hemmings, an intense and thoughtful eleven-year-old boy, is worried. Perfect is the second novel by bestselling British author, Rachel Joyce. €œSometimes it is easier, he thinks, to live out the mistakes we have made than to summon the energy and imagination to repair them”