When the World Was Steady A Novel [Paperback]

Assured and engaging.A beautiful, bittersweet story about the painful cost of self-knowledge and the unpredictability of life.A tenderly ironic double portrait of two hapless middle-aged English sisters who travel to very different islands.As exceptional in quality as it is in content&an outstanding first novel.A PEN/Faulkner Award finalist about two sisters divergent paths, from the author of