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The Hand That First Held Mine
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English
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The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling novel from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*Over 4...
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The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling novel from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
*Over 400,000 copies sold*
Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award
'Exquisitely sensual' Emma Donoghue, author of Room
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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, she realises she can wait no longer, and leaves for London. There, Lexie carves out a new life for herself at the heart of bohemian 1950s Soho, with Innes by her side.
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, while Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood - memories that don't tally with his parents' version of events.
As Ted's search for answers gathers momentum, so a portrait is revealed of two women separated by fifty years, but linked by their passionate refusal to settle for ordinary lives.
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'The journey this novel invites us on is wonderful, involving time travel, heart ache, elation, confusion, freedom, nostalgia and art' Scotland on Sunday
'A skilful, hurtful writer, capable of imbuing the everyday with weight and colour, ridiculously pleasurable to read' Guardian
'Genuinely unputdownable' Literary Review
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⭐ What readers are saying; ⭐
'I look up and several days have passed, unnoticed, because I've been completely absorbed... at the end, I sat back, breathless' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Lexie has become one of my favourite heroines' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'At times I hold my breath, filled with emotion. Beautiful' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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About the book
Full name
The Hand That First Held Mine
Author
Maggie O'Farrell
Language
English
English
Binding
Book - Paperback
Date of issue
2025
Number of pages
384
EAN
9781035430093
ISBN
1035430096
Libristo code
47216048
Publishers
Headline Publishing Group
Weight
332
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