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The Still Point
The Still Point: A Novel | Amy Sackville
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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-summers day, Edwards 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 Emilys romance. The Still Point slaloms 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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BarbaraBB
The Still Point: A Novel | Amy Sackville
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Too many storylines intertwining in this book. Edward sails for the Antarctic to never return, his young wife keeps waiting for him, her granddaughter Julia lives in their house a century later and her husband Simon needed a storyline too. I don‘t know. Like with her next novel, Orkney, I am not sure I do understand Amy Sackville 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Cinfhen Beautiful photo 😍sorry the book wasn‘t more enjoyable but the cover is wonderful, just like Orkney 😉 3y
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen That‘s true. I bought it for its cover back in 2010! Glad I finally read it! 3y
Megabooks Those strawberries look fantastic! 3y
BarbaraBB @Megabooks they were! It‘s the time they are best since they come fresh from the land! 3y
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