The Idea of Perfection

This is Kate Grenville. She won the Orange Prize in 2001 for the book I started reading last night, The Idea of Perfection.

I don't know anything about the Orange Prize, except that Grenville's website describes it as Britain's richest literary prize. I notice her website has a link to The Orange Prize so I will do some research.

The book somehow brings together the topics of engineering and quilting as well as being a story about a very unlikely friendship between two fairly odd characters.

This quote from Leonardo da Vinci gives a clue as to why and how: "An arch is two weaknesses which together make a strength."