Perfect Little World - Kevin Wilson
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Therese Plummer
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults, Contemporary
When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, shes just about out of options. She recently graduated from high school and is pregnant with her art teachers baby. Her mother is dead, and her father is a drunk. The art teacher is too much of a head case to help raise the child. Izzy knows she can be a good mother, but without any money or prospects shes left searching., So when Dr. Grind offers her a space in The Infinite Family Project, she accepts. Housed in a spacious compound in Tennessee, she joins nine other couples, all with children the same age as her newborn son, to raise their children as one extended family. Grinds theory is that the more parental love children receive, the better off they are., This attempt at a utopian ideal - funded by an eccentric billionaire - starts off promising: Izzy enjoys the kids, reading to them, and teaching them to cook. She even forms a bond with her son more meaningful than she ever expected. But soon, the gentle equilibrium among the families
