"Amy Sackville’s The Still Point, a story of turn-of-the-century arctic pioneering and contemporary emotional frozen states, has an Eliotic calm that seems almost uncanny in a debut writer, and a narrative voice that’s subtle and original." Times Literary Supplement "A quiet but significant debut about identity and family." Financial Times Not only do all the moving parts hold together, but a new fictional voice emerges here as well not harsh, brash and shiny, not overly self-conscious and sentimental somewhere between the calm beauty we expect from novels that invoke Victorian England and the raw edges of modern life." Los Angeles Times This is a lot to juggle, especially in a debut novel, but Amy Sackville pulls it off thrillingly, seductively, dreamily. "Many novels explore the sliding planes, the archaeology of past, present and future and the still points where the fabric of time is rent and characters slip through. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Sharply observed and deeply engaging, "The Still Point" is a powerful literary debut, and a moving meditation on the distances - geographical and emotional - that can exist between two people. But as afternoon turns into evening, Julia makes a discovery that splinters her long-held image of Edward and Emily's romance, and her husband Simon faces a precipitous choice that will decide the future of their relationship. 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.
He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for decades, her dreams and devotion gradually freezing into rigid widowhood. 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.
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