The Hand That First Held Mine: The Award-Winning Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet
Autor Maggie O'Farrellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mar 2025
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781035430093
ISBN-10: 1035430096
Pagini: 374
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Headline
Colecția Tinder Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1035430096
Pagini: 374
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Headline
Colecția Tinder Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
"O’Farrell brings to mind Sue Miller but with a British and darker flavor; her sure hand for psychological suspense . . . continues to be most impressive." —Library Journal "Maggie O’Farrell’s cinematically vivid novel is moody and powerful and plotted at a breakneck pace. This book, like life, will disarm you with its unannounced twists and tragedies and moments of unexpected beauty. She delivers to readers that rarest of experiences—total emotional investment. Hers is a brilliant feat of prose marksmanship—also, it made me cry on the subway." —Heidi Julavits, author of The Effect of Living Backwards and The Uses of Enchantment "Maggie O’Farrell knows how to weave a bewitching tale, both thrilling and poetic. The Hand That First Held Mine will no doubt enrapture you, just as it has me." —Tatiana de Rosnay, author of Sarah’s Key "An exquisitely sensual tale of love, motherhood, and other forms of madness, The Hand That First Held Mine will unsettle, move, and haunt you." —Emma Donoghue, author of Slammerkin "Maggie O’Farrell deftly depicts the long-after shocks of death, betrayal, and life-changing love as her richly complicated characters play out an immensely satisfying plot. The Hand That First Held Mine is a dazzling and absorbing novel." —Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street "Maggie O’Farrell is an uncommonly perceptive writer, and The Hand That First Held Mine is an unforgettable story of family, ambition, and love. I couldn’t stop thinking about it long after I read the final page." —Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family —
Notă biografică
MAGGIE O'FARRELL was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include The Marriage Portrait, Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), After You'd Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine, and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written a memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. She lives in Edinburgh.