Hand That First Held Mine e-bog
97,26 DKK
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From the best-selling author ofHamnetand The Marriage Portrait comes a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood."e;An exquisitely sensual tale of love, motherhood, and other forms of madness,The Hand That First Held Minewill unsettle, move, and haunt you."e; Emma Donoghue, author ofRoomLexie Sinclair is plotting an ext...
E-bog
97,26 DKK
Forlag
Mariner Books
Udgivet
25 januar 2011
Længde
368 sider
Genrer
Fiction: general and literary
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780547487274
From the best-selling author ofHamnetand The Marriage Portrait comes a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood."e;An exquisitely sensual tale of love, motherhood, and other forms of madness,The Hand That First Held Minewill unsettle, move, and haunt you."e; Emma Donoghue, author ofRoomLexie 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 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. 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 forher 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 storiesthese two womensomething that becomes all the more heartbreaking and beautiful as they all hurtle toward its revelation.Praised byThe Washington Postas a breathtaking, heart-breaking creation,The Hand That First Held Mineis a gorgeous and tenderly wrought story about the ways in which love and beauty bind us together. It is a gorgeous inquiry into the ways we make and unmake our lives, who we know ourselves to be, and how even our most accidental legacies connect us.