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Book at Bedtime - The Still Point

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Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two couples, living a hundred years apart, collide unexpectedly one summer's day

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Book at Bedtime - The Still Point - Episode 1

Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two couples, living a hundred years apart, collide unexpectedly.

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Book at Bedtime - The Still Point - Episode 10

With the secrets of Julia's family finally laid bare, she and Simon must find a way to resolve the distance between them and to confront their unspoken fears.

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Book at Bedtime - The Still Point - Episode 2

As Julia looks in the mirror, the same mirror that her great-aunt glanced into before meeting the explorer Edward Mackley, she reflects on her own meeting with her future husband.

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Book at Bedtime - The Still Point - Episode 3

Leaving Emily in Norway, Edward finally sets out for the Pole. Back in England, the young Emily celebrates a very different Christmas meal with her new brother- and sister-in-law.

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Book at Bedtime - The Still Point - Episode 4

As Edward's expedition inches closer to the Pole, Julia reads the letters he wrote to his wife and imagines her great-aunt waiting for her hero to return.

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Book at Bedtime - The Still Point - Episode 5

Emma Fielding reads from the novel by Amy Sackville. Simon remembers how Julia's famous ancestor brought him to her one warm spring day, but fears his wife is now lost in the past.

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Book at Bedtime - The Still Point - Episode 6

How Edward Mackley's men survived a terrifying attack by a bear and a near-fatal fall through the ice, as Julia revisits their journey north through Edward's diaries.

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Book at Bedtime - The Still Point - Episode 7

Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's novel. Edward's expedition encounters danger, frustration and finally loss. Will he ever return safely to his Emily?

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Book at Bedtime - The Still Point - Episode 8

Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's novel. Julia has a visitor who, without knowing, reveals a shocking truth about her family's history.

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Book at Bedtime - The Still Point - Episode 9

Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's novel. Simon finally puts an end to the threat to his marriage, while Julia realises that she's been living far too much in the past.

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