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|title=Almost Perfect

|author=Delia Franklin

|publisher=Brick Lane

|date=September 2014

|summary=The potential is there for a gentle story of relationships and self-discovery. But it suffers from lack of editing, with confusing structure and too much explanatory narrative.

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Almost Perfect is the debut novel for Delia Franklin, and comes with a delightfully quirky front cover, which is part of what attracted me to it. It starts well, too. Gloria, who works as housekeeper for a late middle-aged farmer called Will, is happily surveying her vegetable patch. The tractor approaches and as Will climbs down, his mobile phone alerts him to the fact that his only granddaughter Lucy has had a fall, and is in a serious state in hospital.