At the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edgar Mackley sets in motion his plan to reach the North Pole and disappears into the icy landscape without a trace. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who waits for his return for decades, her dreams and dedication gradually turning into a harsh widowhood. A hundred years later, on a hot summer day, his great-granddaughter Julia wanders through the old family home, trying to impose some order on the confusion of inherited items and memories from this categorical expedition, while she takes care to ignore the growing cracks in her own relationship. As the afternoon turns to evening, Julia discovers something that shatters her traditional image of Edgar and Emily's romance, and her husband, Simon, faces a decisive choice that will determine the future of their relationship. With observation and depth, Arctic Stationary Point is a powerful literary debut and a moving dissertation on the distances - geographical and emotional - that can exist between two people.