The still point
By: Amy Sackville
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: W F Howes
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rearsby [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781407491110
Subjects: Family secrets; Interpersonal relations; Marriage; Large type books; Explorers; Fiction
Description: 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.