The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell
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Winner of the Costa Novel Award for 2010.
A gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, this is a
tour de force from one of our best loved novelists. When the sophisticated
Innes Kent turns up 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. In the present day, Elina
and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child. Elina
struggles to reconcile the demands of motherhood with sense of herself as an
artist, and Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood that don't tally
with his parents' version of events. As Ted begins to search for answers, 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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