The Stillest Day

About this book

Bethesda Grant is an artist and a teacher. Her village life is order-ed and calm until one day the sudden vision of a mans face sears itself onto her minds eye an imprint of sensual hypnotic power. She begins to paint fragmented images of Mathew Pearson secretly and obsessively. But Mathew Pearson has a wife a small laughing preg-nant creature whom Bethesdas mother befriends. On the stillest day Bethesda performs an act so bold and violent that it shatters all their lives - she performs a very bloody and risky emergency caesarean on Mathews wife using a piece of mirror glass to deliver a baby daughter leaving the mother dead. The Stillest Day is an exquisitely taut and shocking novel about a young woman at the turn of the century who transgresses - both in life and in art - the limits set down for her.