![]() This happens during an ordinary drive to school. “It’s the difference between something happening and something not happening… It’s very dangerous.” And indeed Byron is right as the adding of the two seconds triggers a change in his life and that of his family that ripple down the months and years that follow. “Two seconds are huge,” he tells his mother Diana. Whereas two seconds would pass most people by, Byron is acutely aware that two seconds is all that it takes for something monumental to happen. This is the year when two extra seconds are going to be added at the end of the month so as to bring the clock back in line with the movement of the Earth. Eleven year old Byron, a middle class child who spends his time studying for exams and discussing the meaning of life with his Times reading friend James. Perfect is told from the perspective of two different characters in two different time periods. This unique debuted demonstrated Joyce’s ability to combine the sadness of life with the hope and joy. Her first was 2012’s celebrated The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry in which a pensioner walks across England in order to say goodbye to a dying friend. ![]()
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