When The World Was Steady: A Novel

A PEN/Faulkner Award finalist about two sistersÆ divergent paths, from the author of The Burning Girl and The EmperorÆs Children. In this highly acclaimed novel, life isnÆt all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When EmmyÆs marriage ends, she flees her home in Sydney to ôfind herselfö on the island of Baliùonly to become embroiled with a crew of international misfits and smugglers. Her prim and pious sister Virginia, meanwhile, has never wandered far outside of London. Struggling to find meaning, Virginia follows her aging motherÆs advice to vacation on the Isle of Skye. On these two islands halfway around the world, the middle-aged sisters confront the costs of self-knowledge and their destinies with unexpected consequences.

• | Author: Claire Messud
• | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• | Publication Date: Aug 29, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0393355098
• | ISBN-13: 9780393355093