The Stillest Day

Josephine Hart

Original title: The stillest day

first published 1998 Overlook Press, 1998 207 pages

Bethesda Barnet is an artist and a teacher. Her village life with an invalid mother is ordered and calm until the sudden vision of a man's face imprints itself on her mind's eye - and she becomes a woman obsessed. She paints fragmented images of Mathew Pearson, secretly and relentlessly. And then, on the stillest day, in an extreme moment, she performs an act so bold that it shatters lives. For daring to play God, sh...

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The Stillest Day hardcover · 2002 · ISIS Large Print Books · 192 pages · 9780753159743
The stillest day edition · 1999 · Vintage · 207 pages
The stillest day edition · 1998 · Overlook Press · 207 pages

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