“You can tell a woman’s whole life story from the possessions in her jewelry box. Like reading a palm, you can trace the points where her life has intersected with memorable events, people, places, and loves. You can speculate on the essence of her personality, all from what she has accumulated in that box.” (from Perfectly Imperfect)

In her acclaimed first book, In an Instant, Lee Woodruff, along with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, wrote eloquently and honestly about the struggles they faced together as Bob recovered from a traumatic brain injury sustained in Iraq. Now, with the same candor and clarity, Lee Woodruff chronicles her life as wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend.

Woodruff’s deeply personal and, at times, uproariously funny stories highlight such universal topics as family, marriage, friends, and how life never seems to go as planned.

On raising teenagers: “Now with a boy and girl on the precipice of serious adolescence, the bathroom door is sealed tighter than a government nuclear testing ground.”

On her changing body: “Over the last ten years my own knees had begun to form those dreaded smiley faces, sagging underneath.”

How she copes with tragedy: “Swimming surrounds me in the velvet wet of a bluish green world where I can dive deep down and sob with no trace.”

Even her sense of style: “I’ve always been more Leave It to Beaver than Sex in the City.”

In a voice that is fresh, irreverently funny, and irresistible, Lee Woodruff traces the quiet moments and memorable events that have shaped her life in progress. Perfectly Imperfect is the testimonial of a woman who embraces the chaos of her surroundings, discovers the splendor of life’s flaws, and accepts that perfection is as impossible to achieve as a spotless kitchen floor.

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Listening Length	6 hours and 21 minutes
Author	Lee Woodruff
Narrator	Lee Woodruff
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Audible.com.au Release Date	21 April 2009
Publisher	Random House Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	0739382195
Best Sellers Rank	224,748 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 1,695 in Biographies of Women (Audible Books & Originals) 6,918 in Relationships (Audible Books & Originals) 12,362 in Biographies of Women (Books)

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Christina in Branson, MO

Touching and raw story of survival

Reviewed in the United States on 19 October 2019

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Lee tells a raw story of survival. Both her husbands survival from a landmine injury while war reporting overseas; but the survival of herself and her family.

sooz

Lee captures every emotion in...the book...perfectly

Reviewed in the United States on 17 July 2012

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The first story made me laugh so loud that my husband could hear me through his headphones with music blaring. Other stories made me wistful and some made me cry. Lee captures those daily moments in ways that so few can--it's impossible to not become utterly engrossed in every story she tells. I don't know how Lee keeps all those balls in the air, all the time, for so long...but she hasn't dropped one yet. You will LOVE this book!

Judie25

It's me

Reviewed in the United States on 6 October 2012

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I read this book for a book club, and one of the questions asked was "Which of the personal stories could you relate to?" Everyone in the group could relate to at least one of the stories in the book, and I could relate to several. It is wonderful to find that in some experiences you are not alone in dealing with them. It is like talking to one of your girlfriends and receiving confirmation that it is going to be OK.

M. Crawford

Ok, not outstanding.

Reviewed in the United States on 29 January 2015

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It was ok, not outstanding, but i did enjoy reading it. I expected her to tell more about her husbands progress with the brain recovery, but she did not.

Robert J.

Perfect.

Reviewed in the United States on 16 February 2015

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This is one of my very favorite books. L. Woodruff is a very talented writer and her work here is inspiring.

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