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Title	:	The Hand That First Held Mine
Author	:	Maggie O'Farrell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 341 pages
Published	:	April 12th 2010 by Houghton Mifflin (first published April 12th 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Contemporary. European Literature. British Literature

The Hand That First Held Mine

Maggie O'Farrell

Hardcover | Pages: 341 pages

Rating: 3.91 | 13647 Users | 1468 Reviews

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A spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood.

Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself.

Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears duck-egg blue ties and introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war Soho. She learns to be a reporter, to know art and artists, to embrace her life fully and with a deep love at the center of it. She creates many lives--all of them unconventional. And when she finds herself pregnant, she doesn't hesitate to have the baby on her own.

Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood. She doesn't recognize herself: she finds herself walking outside with no shoes; she goes to the restaurant for lunch at nine in the morning; she can't recall the small matter of giving birth. But for her boyfriend, Ted, fatherhood is calling up lost memories, with images he cannot place.

As Ted's memories become more disconcerting and more frequent, it seems that something might connect these two stories-- these two women-- something that becomes all the more heartbreaking and beautiful as they all hurtle toward its revelation.

Here Maggie O'Farrell brings us a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood. Like her acclaimed The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, it is a "breathtaking, heart-breaking creation." (The Washington Post Book World) and it is a gorgeous inquiry into the ways we make and unmake our lives, who we know ourselves to be, and how even our most accidental legacies connect us.

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Original Title:	The Hand That First Held Mine
ISBN:	0547330790 (ISBN13: 9780547330792)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Costa Book Award for Novel (2010)

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Oh no, another favourite author releasing a new title cue the sickening feelings of anxiety when I settle into the story , wondering if it will meet my expectations but any fears are quickly assuaged as I become immersed in this, Maggie O Farrells fifth novel. I devoured it in a few sittings one of those books you are eager to embrace but loath to leave.Like its predecessor, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, there is a cleverly woven dual narrative, one set in the 1950s/1960s in Bohemian

A young yet successful artist immigrates to England from Finland, falls in love and has a baby with her English landlord. It's a difficult birth and both Elin and Ted are reeling from its aftermath. Elin feels alone and confused by Ted's isolating behavior. Ted is just as lost by his behavior. Seeing Elin almost bleed out after her C-section has triggered fear and old remembrances that he can't quite hold onto keep coming unburied yet he can't seem to hold onto the connections so he plunges even

The Hand That First Held Mine is Maggie OFarrells fifth novel. Two stories are told in parallel: Lexie Sinclair quits Devon for London when the charismatic Innes Kent arrives on her doorstep, and starts her life at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene; Elina and Ted are coming to terms with the changes wrought in their present-day lives by the birth of their son. As we follow lives separated by fifty years, wondering how they might be connected, we learn that Ted has been having flashes of

Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as if the trees know, in their restlessness, in their head-tossing impatience, that something is about to happen. The garden is empty; the patio deserted, save for some pots with geraniums and delphiniums shuddering in the wind. A bench stands on the lawn, two chairs politely facing away from it. A bicycle is propped up against the house but its pedals are

Oh no, another favourite author releasing a new title - cue the sickening feelings of anxiety when I settle into the story , wondering if it will meet my expectations but any fears are quickly assuaged as I become immersed in this, Maggie O' Farrell's fifth novel. I devoured it in a few sittings - one of those books you are eager to embrace but loath to leave.Like it's predecessor, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, there is a cleverly woven dual narrative, one set in the 1950s/1960s in Bohemian

Having recently read The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox and loved it, I was eager to read another book by Maggie O'Farrell and the blurb of The hand that first held mine had me intrigued.Fresh out of university and in disgrace, Lexie Sinclair is waiting for life to begin when the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep in rural Devon. In the present Ted and Elina no longer recognise their lives after the arrival of their first child. Elina an artist wonders if she will ever paint again

The Hand That First Held Mine (2010) is Maggie OFarrells poetic, extremely moving and very human story of memory, motherhood and emotions. OFarrell tells us the stories of two couples Lexie and Innes, in the 1950s and Ted and Elina in the present day both with a London setting and both stories linked. First Held Mine is a novel which is very up close and personal and unflinchingly so. Its a story ostensibly about relationships; family and memory (distorted or otherwise) providing a heady mix