—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. Enclosed within her parents’ genteel country lawn, she yearns for more. 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. The Hand That First Held Mine is a dazzling and absorbing novel." Maggie O'Farrell. 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. She makes her way to the city, and meets a magazine editor, Innes, a man unlike any she has ever imagined. Publication Date: January 26, 2011; Genres: Fiction; Enclosed within her parents’ genteel country lawn, she yearns for more. ISBN-13: 9780547423180 Summary Lexie Sinclair cannot stay. 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. In The Hand that First Held Mine, she returns to the domestic sphere of her earlier novels, but with a meatier, more complex agenda. Reading The Hand That First Held Mine, it is abundantly clear that author Maggie O’Farrell has this rare skill. The Hand That First Held Mine is Maggie O’Farrell’s fifth novel. The Hand That First Held Mine. Reviewed by Kathy Weissman on January 24, 2011. The Hand That First Held Mine Maggie O'Farrell, 2010 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 368 pp. 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. Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. The Hand That First Held Mine Maggie O'Farrell, 2010 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 368 pp. The focus has … The Hand That First Held Mine is a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood. ISBN-13: 9780547423180 Summary Lexie Sinclair cannot stay. The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell. I couldn’t stop thinking about it long after I read the final page." 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. 4.0 • 16 Ratings; $9.99; $9.99; Publisher Description. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. She is an independent woman who works as an arts and news writer when woman mostly didn't, and … Like her acclaimed The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox , it is a "breathtaking, heart-breaking creation. 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