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THE STILL POINT
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| By: |
Amy Sackville |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846272297 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846272295 |
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| Publisher: |
PORTOBELLO BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
4 February, 2010 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North Pole and vanishes into the icy landscape. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for decades. A hundred years later Edward's great-grand-niece Julia moves through the family house and makes a discovery that splinters her long-held image of Edward and Emily's romance. |
| Synopsis: |
At the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North Pole and vanishes into the icy landscape without a trace. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for decades, her dreams and devotion gradually freezing into rigid widowhood. A hundred years later, on a sweltering mid-summer's day, Edward's great-grand-niece Julia moves through the old family house, attempting to impose some order on the clutter of inherited belongings and memories from that ill-fated expedition, and taking care to ignore the deepening cracks within her own marriage. But as afternoon turns into evening, Julia makes a discovery that splinters her long-held image of Edward and Emily's romance, and her husband Simon faces a precipitous choice that will decide the future of their relationship. Sharply observed and deeply engaging, "The Still Point" is a powerful literary debut, and a moving meditation on the distances - geographical and emotional - that can exist between two people. |
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UK |
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Portobello Books Ltd |
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