The Hand That First Held Mine - Softcover

O'Farrell, Maggie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755378091 ISBN 13: 9780755378098

Publisher: Headline Review, 2010

Synopsis

A gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, this is a tour de force from one of our most acclaimed and best loved novelists.
When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, she carves out a new life for herself, with Innes at her side. In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child. Elina, a painter, struggles to reconcile the demands of motherhood with sense of herself as an artist, and Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood, memories that don't tally with his parents' version of events. As Ted begins to search for answers, so an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed, separated by fifty years, but connected in ways that neither could ever have expected.

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About the Author

Maggie O'Farrell is the author of five novels, After You'd Gone, My Lover's Lover, The Distance Between Us, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox and The Hand That First Held Mine. Born in Northern Ireland, Maggie grew up in Wales and Scotland. She lives in London with her husband and two children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Headline Review
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0755378091
• ISBN 13: 9780755378098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352