IDEA OF PERFECTION, STONEHENGE

THE IDEA OF PERFECTION, Kate Grenville -- OK, but not THAT great. An engineer is sent to a tiny town in Australia to tear down an old "Bent" wooden bridge. Most of the characters in the book have some kind of strange "personality disorder" -- don't we all? One woman, who has an affair with the Chinese butcher, is obsessively into cleaning and cosmetics. Both the female love interest, a quilt-making museum curator, and the bridge engineer are very shy and have trouble with relationships. Etc.

STONEHENGE, Bernard Cornwell -- Historical novel (at least physically) about the making of Stonehenge. Lots of conjecture about the society that might've built it, and how. Obsession, brutal sacrifice, deception, survival.