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.
The Still Point moves through past, present, and future, with
dreams revealing a universal simultaneity to the choices we must
all make in the faces of love and passion. Long-listed for the
Orange Prize, The Still Point is a powerful literary debut,
masterfully told in the language of the heart.
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