The Hand That First Held Mine… by Maggie O’Farrell
Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010.
‘Maggie O’Farrell has a singular knack for sensing the magnetic fields that push and pull people in love, and in The Hand That First Held Mine, she summons those invisible forces to tell two stories. The first is the spirited journey of Lexie Sinclair, a bright, tempestuous woman who finds her way from rural Devon to the center of postwar London’s burgeoning art scene. Her force of personality makes her a natural critic and she soon falls deeply in love. Fast forward fifty years and you’ll meet Ted and Elina: a contemporary London couple who’ve just had their first child, both afflicted with a crisis of memory–Elina can recall only bits and pieces of her life before the baby, while Ted fights off memories he can’t even recognize.
O’Farrell alternates these plots artfully Inevitably, the two stories collide, and the result is a remarkably taut and unsentimental whole that embraces the unpredictable, both in love and in life. ‘
$16.50 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 12, 2010) Amazon.com
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