Margaret Eleanor Leigh is, if I dare say it, slightly crazy. But crazy in the nicest and cleverest way when it comes to entertaining her readers. Though she doesn’t classify the book as such, Everything Will Be Just Perfect! is a memoir about nothing being perfect, no matter how hard one tries. It’s also a humorous travel memoir, and what better way to travel from South Africa to New Zealand, from Greece to Wales than to move residences 92 times! Why would anyone move 92 times in a lifetime? Well, Margaret Eleanor Leigh and her mother, Polly, who ends up dying by the time all the moving’s done, have perfectly good reasons for doing so. And those reasons find readers sometimes appalled, occasionally surprised, often confused but always amused.
I really don’t want to tell you too much about Everything Will Be Just Perfect! because if you enjoy humor, you need to experience Margaret Eleanor Leigh’s crazy life, motivations, musings, fears and unfulfilled dreams for yourself. She spends much of that travel and moving time reading, observing people, writing about them, and submitting books to publishers. Then she watches her mail for rejection slips, gets them and moves on, because after all nothing is perfect even when Polly assures her everything will be. (from a review by Viga Boland for Readers' Favourite).