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The hand that first held mine

Fifty years after a reporter of genteel origins becomes a single mother, London painter Elina navigates the first weeks of motherhood after surviving a dangerous labor and learns that her life is disconcertingly linked to the woman from the past.

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  • "Hand that first held mine"
  • "Hand that first held mine"@en
  • "Hand that first held mine"@pl
  • "Hand that 1st held mine"@en
  • "The hand that first held mine"@it

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  • "Fifty years after a reporter of genteel origins becomes a single mother, London painter Elina navigates the first weeks of motherhood after surviving a dangerous labor and learns that her life is disconcertingly linked to the woman from the past."@en
  • "Fifty years after a reporter of genteel origins becomes a single mother, London painter Elina navigates the first weeks of motherhood after surviving a dangerous labor and learns that her life is disconcertingly linked to the woman from the past."
  • "Fresh out of university, Lexie Sinclair meets the sophisticated Innes Kent . She moves to London and 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. A portrait is revealed of two women separated by fifty years, but linked by a passionate refusal to settle for ordinary lives."@en
  • "Lexie Sinclair and bohemian Innes Kent carve out a life together in the 1950s Soho art scene. In the present day, Ted is disturbed by memories of his childhood that don't tally with his parents' version of events. As Ted searches for answers, the extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed, in ways neither could have expected."
  • "Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears duck-egg blue ties and introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war Soho. She learns to be a reporter, to know art and artists, to embrace her life fully and with a deep love at the center of it. She creates many lives--all of them unconventional. And when she finds herself pregnant, she doesn't hesitate to have the baby on her own. Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood. She doesn't recognize herself: she finds herself walking outside with no shoes; she goes to the restaurant for lunch at nine in the morning; she can't recall the small matter of giving birth. But for?her boyfriend, Ted,?fatherhood is calling up lost memories, with images he cannot place. As Ted's memories become more disconcerting and more frequent, it seems that something might connect these two stories-- these two women-- something that becomes all the more heartbreaking and beautiful as they all hurtle toward its revelation. Here Maggie O'Farrell brings us a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood. Like her acclaimed The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox."
  • "A spell-binding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood."
  • "When bohemian Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises 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 for herself. In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child. Elina, a painter, struggles to reconcile the demands of motherhood with sense of herself as an artist, and Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood. As Ted begins to search for answers, so an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed, separated by 50 years, but connected in ways that neither could ever have expected."
  • "Fresh out of university and in disgrace, Lexie Sinclair is waiting for life to begin. When the bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep in rural Devon, she realises that she can wait no longer, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, Lexie carves out a new life for herself with Innes at her side."@en
  • "Eine grosse Liebe, ein unfassbarer Betrug und ein über Jahrzehnte gehütetes Familiengeheimnis Lexie Sinclair und Elina Viitala sind zwei Frauen, deren Leben fünfzig Jahre trennen. Und doch gibt es etwas, das die beiden über die Zeit hinweg verbindet. Lexie ist eine lebenshungrige Schönheit im London der 60er Jahre, die in dem weltgewandten Innes Kent ihre grosse Liebe gefunden hat. Die Malerin Elina und ihr Lebensgefährte Ted sind im London der Gegenwart gerade Eltern eines Sohnes geworden und müssten eigentlich überglücklich sein. Aber nicht nur die dramatischen Umstände der Geburt werfen einen Schatten auf ihr Glück: Es gibt ein Geheimnis in Teds Vergangenheit, das die kleine Familie zerstören könnte - und das die Lebenswege von Lexie, Innes, Elina und Ted untrennbar verknüpft."
  • "ROMANCE. A gorgeously written story of love and motherhood with stunning emotional punch - this is Maggie O'Farrell doing what she does better than anyone. This is the story of two women - Lexie and Elina, a journalist and a painter - separated by fifty years, but linked by a story of love, family secrets and deception, that touches powerfully on the theme of motherhood. It is acclaimed and bestselling author Maggie O'Farrell's most emotionally satisfying novel to date."
  • "Fresh out of university and in disgrace, Lexie Sinclair is waiting for life to begin. When the bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance, she realises that she can wait no loger and leaves Devon for London. There, at the heart of the 1950's Soho art scene, Lexie carves out a new life for herself with Innes at her side. In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child. An extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed as Ted begins to search for answers."
  • "Een jonge vrouw volgt haar grote liefde naar Londen en begint er een nieuw leven; vele jaren later schudt een pasgeboren baby het leven van zijn ouders danig door elkaar."

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  • "Domestic fiction"
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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
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  • "Powieść irlandzka w języku angielskim"@pl
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  • "Popular literature"
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  • "En we vergeten omdat het moet"
  • "Qian shou zhi chu = The hand that first held mine"
  • "La mano che teneva la mia"@it
  • "La mano che teneva la mia"
  • "Qian shou zhi chu"
  • "De hand die de mijne vasthield"
  • "Die Hand, die damals meine hielt Roman"
  • "Ona pierwsza"@pl
  • "牵手之初 = The hand that first held mine"
  • "The hand that first held mine"@en
  • "The hand that first held mine"
  • "Ruka koja je prva držala moju"
  • "牵手之初"
  • "The Hand That First Held Mine"@en
  • "Cette main qui a pris la mienne"

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