He and his sister, Lucy, attend a private school in the nearby town. Byron’s family life in an isolated Georgian house on the wild idyll of Cranham Moor is, on the surface, 1970s picture perfect. It could, Byron thinks, wreck everything. In 1972, Byron Hemming, an imaginative 11-year-old, worries when his clever best friend, James, informs him that two seconds are being added to the clock because recorded time is out of kilter with the natural movement of the earth. ‘It was all because of a small slip in time, the whole story,’ we’re told at the beginning of Perfect, the engaging follow-up to Rachel Joyce’s quirky bestselling debut, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
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