Annotation
"Harley Savage is a plain, rawboned woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy, gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, one marriage gone sour, and a crippling lack of physical courage. Seeming to be incompetent was something Douglas did to protect himself, just as having a "dangerous streak" served the same purpose for Harley." "Harley and Douglas arrive in the eccentric little New South Wales country town of Karakarook at the same time; she's there to help build a heritage museum, and he's there to demolish the quaint old Bent Bridge. From day one, they are on a collision course. But out of this unpromising conjunction of opposites something unexpected happens: something even better than perfection."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Characters
| Name | Cheeseman, Douglas |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Trait | Divorced |
| Name | Savage, Harley |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Museum curator |
| Trait | Divorced |
| Name | Porcelline, Felicity |
| Gender | Female |
| Trait | Married |
| Name | Chang, Alfred |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Butcher |
| Trait | Chinese |
| Genre | Fiction Love story --Humorous |
| Topics | Eccentrics Small town life Preservationists Protests Man-woman relationships Mismatched lovers Romantic dilemmas |
| Setting | Karakarook, New South Wales Small town |