The story of Bethesda Barnet, a spinster and art teacher who is slowly moving towards marriage with a farmer when she is gripped with desire for a man who arrives in the village with his pregnant wife. As events unfold, the collision of passion and accident pushes Bethesda towards social disgrace and madness.
'The Stillest Day' combines the attributes of an elegant psychological thriller and a Gothic horror story - intelligent and mesmerically compelling.
