The Still Point
by:
Amy Sackville (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781846272295 (1846272297)
Publish date: March 1st 2010
Publisher: Portobello Books
Pages no: 307
Edition language: English
Won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize
Won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize
Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two couples, living a hundred years apart, collide unexpectedly one summer's day. Blurb - At the turn of the 20th century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley set out for the North Pole and di...