{"product_id":"the-hand-that-first-held-mine-the-award-winning-sunday-times-bestseller-from-the-author-of-hamnet-9781035430093","title":"The Hand That First Held Mine: The Award-Winning Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Headline Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003etop 10 bestselling novel from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Over 400,000 copies sold*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eExquisitely sensual\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Emma Donoghue, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eRoom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-----\u003cbr\u003eFresh out of university and in disgrace, Lexie Sinclair is waiting for life to begin. When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep in rural Devon, she realises she can wait no longer, and leaves for London. There, Lexie carves out a new life for herself at the heart of bohemian 1950s Soho, with Innes by her side.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the present, Ted and Elina no longer recognise their lives after the arrival of their first child. Elina, an artist, wonders if she will ever paint again, while Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood - memories that don't tally with his parents' version of events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Ted's search for answers gathers momentum, so a portrait is revealed of two women separated by fifty years, but linked by their passionate refusal to settle for ordinary lives.\u003cbr\u003e_____\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'The journey this novel invites us on is wonderful, involving time travel, heart ache, elation, confusion, freedom, nostalgia and art\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e' Scotland on Sunday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A skilful, hurtful writer, capable of imbuing the everyday with weight and colour, ridiculously pleasurable to read' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Genuinely unputdownable'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e Literary Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_____\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e⭐ What readers are saying; ⭐\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I look up and several days have passed, unnoticed, because I've been completely absorbed... at the end, I sat back, breathless' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLexie has become one of my favourite heroines' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt times I hold my breath, filled with emotion. Beautiful' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45848099586199,"sku":"9781035430093","price":455.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781035430093.webp?v=1769297521","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-hand-that-first-held-mine-the-award-winning-sunday-times-bestseller-from-the-author-of-hamnet-9781035430093","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}