The Still Point: Press reviews

‘Sackville writes with great assurance and wonderfully evokes both the polar landscape and the atmosphere of the period. And I liked her interweaving of past and present. A most promising debut.’

Penelope Lively

'If Virginia Woolf had had a younger sister with a passionate interest in icebergs, she might have written something like this beautiful, unearthly novel, in which the secrets of a house and of a marriage continually open out onto a wild glare of Arctic light.'

Francis Spufford

‘Remarkable both as stylist and storyteller, in elegant glittering prose Amy Sackville unfolds a love story of compelling contrasts. Across a century, this novel plays with Time, considering the tiny track a life might leave on this earth as much as the storm at the heart of a contemporary relationship. This is a fine and distinctive first novel.’

Maura Dooley

Extraordinary tales of early polar expeditions fuse together in a fictional recreation of one such doomed voyage … The two worlds of ice and heat, a century apart, are carefully balanced by the exquisitely restrained prose.’

Guardian