ISBN-13: 9780547423180 Summary Lexie Sinclair cannot stay. And yet, in THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, love also becomes a way to rediscover a lost past, transcend your limits, or transform your life. by Maggie O'Farrell Alexis Soto Ramírez Audiobook. Listen to a sample ... Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood after a traumatic birth. In The Hand that First Held Mine, she returns to the domestic sphere of her earlier novels, but with a meatier, more complex agenda. She makes her way to the city, and meets a magazine editor, Innes, a man unlike any she has ever imagined. The Hand that First Held Mine. The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell. Reading The Hand That First Held Mine, it is abundantly clear that author Maggie O’Farrell has this rare skill. Enclosed within her parents’ genteel country lawn, she yearns for more. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. Listen. Maggie O'Farrell. Publication Date: January 26, … Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Excerpt The Hand That First Held Mine. The Hand That First Held Mine. The Hand that First Held Mine is a novel written by Maggie O'Farrell, about the spirited journey of Lexie Sinclair, a bright, tempestuous woman who finds her way from rural Devon to the centre of postwar London's burgeoning art scene.Soon, she falls deeply in love. 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. Reviewed by Kathy Weissman on January 24, 2011. The Hand That First Held Mine is a dazzling and absorbing novel." Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award and a Sunday Times bestseller, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE by Maggie O'Farrell is a gorgeously written story of love and motherhood from the author of HAMNET and I AM, I AM, I AM. [The Hand the First Held Mine] tells of two interweaving sets of lives, one that begins with a women, Lexie, 21 in the mid fifities, and just about to leave home for good. The focus … 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. 4.0 • 16 Ratings; $9.99; $9.99; Publisher Description. The Hand That First Held Mine is a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood. She is an independent woman who works as an arts and news writer when woman mostly didn't, and is … O’Farrell’s fifth novel follows the style of the increasingly popular dual-narrative, in which readers are introduced to two remarkable women in alternating chapters. I couldn’t stop thinking about it long after I read the final page." The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. 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