When the World Was Steady: A Novel [Paperback]

A PEN/Faulkner Award finalist about two sisters divergent paths, from the author of 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. US