STILL POINT

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. 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. SHARPLY OBSERVED AND DEEPLY ENGAGING, THE STILL POINT IS A POWERFUL LITERARY DEBUT, AND A MOVING MEDITATION ON THE DISTANCES - GEOGRAPHICAL AND EMOTIONAL - THAT CA