6/27/2023 0 Comments The still point amy sackville![]() ![]() ![]() At the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach. Although his tragic heroism has been part of her identity since childhood she becomes consumed by "the legend of the figure in the snow, and the women left behind who shaped the legend". Read The Still Point by Amy Sackville available from Rakuten Kobo. While Simon designs buildings with strong foundations, Julia roams her crumbling ancestral house, sorting through the spoils of Edward's legacy. Amy Sackville is the author of The Still Point which won the John Llewellyn Rhys award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize and Orkney which won a. For Julia, it's an ethereal landscape of "air, ice and indigo", which embodies a sense of calm isolation and an edgeless, endless wait. For Simon, "one of those who profess not to dream", it's a wild place of rotting flesh, of danger and of terror. Intruding further, in Amy Sackville's first novel, we permeate each of their subconsciouses to see they are both dreaming of the Arctic, where Julia's great-great uncle, Edward Mackley, led a failed expedition to reach the North Pole one hundred years earlier. An omniscient narrator invites us to observe an intimate moment a married couple, Julia and Simon, disentangling their sleeping bodies on a hot summer's night. ![]()
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