From the prize-winning author of The Still Point, a bewitching, brilliant novel which dances the fine line between reality and fantasy to explore the dark edges of desire
Amy Sackville Orden de los libros
Amy Sackville es una autora cuya obra se adentra en las complejidades de la conciencia y la percepción modernas. Su escritura se caracteriza por una aguda observación de los sutiles cambios en la experiencia humana, explorando a menudo temas de identidad y la naturaleza esquiva de la realidad. La prosa de Sackville destaca por su calidad lírica y su precisión detallada, atrayendo a los lectores a paisajes emocionales finamente observados. Es una voz emergente cuya ficción ofrece una perspectiva única y convincente sobre el mundo contemporáneo.
- 2013
- 2011
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 can exist between two people.
