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The Hand That First Held Mine
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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The Hand That First Held Mine
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Publisher's Summary
International bestseller and winner of the 2010 Costa Novel—a gorgeously written story of love and motherhood from the author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait.
When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realizes 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 her 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.
What the critics say
Winner of the 2010 Costa Book Award for Best Novel
“Ridiculously pleasurable to read. . . . Undeniably literary with a capital L.”—The Guardian
“O’Farrell creates a suspenseful atmosphere. . . . When she finally reveals the connections between the two generations and lifts the opaque curtain, we enter a scene of surprising grace and hopefulness.”—The Boston Globe
“From After You’d Gone to The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O’Farrell has written movingly about the female psyche and familial trauma. With The Hand That First Held Mine, she applies that skill to issues of early parenthood in a novel that plays to all her strengths.”—Financial Times