The still point / Amy Sackville.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781582437095
- ISBN: 1582437092
- Physical Description: 307 p. : map ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Counterpoint, c2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | First published in the UK in 2010 by Portobello Books. |
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Subject: | Explorers > Fiction. Explorers' spouses > Fiction. Married people > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Salt Spring Island Public Library.
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