Author: MAGGIE O'FARRELL
Title: The Hand that First Held Mine
Description: Headline Review, 2010. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 341. A gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, this is a tour de force from one of our most acclaimed and best loved novelists. When the bohemian, sophisticated 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, with Innes at her side. 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, memories that don't tally with his parents' version of events. As Ted begins to search for answers, so an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed, separated by fifty years, but connected in ways that neither could ever have expected. ISBN: 9780755308453. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780755308453
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Title: The Hand that First Held Mine
Description: Headline Review, 2010. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 341. A gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, this is a tour de force from one of our most acclaimed and best loved novelists. When the bohemian, sophisticated 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, with Innes at her side. 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, memories that don't tally with his parents' version of events. As Ted begins to search for answers, so an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed, separated by fifty years, but connected in ways that neither could ever have expected. ISBN: 9780755308453. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780755308453
Price: EUR 7.00 = appr. US$ 7.61 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2457198
- Book number: 2457198
See more books from our catalog: Literatuur anderstalig