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The Hand That First Held Mine
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Inviting readers into the innermost worlds of two women who live and become mothers generations apart, Maggie O’Farrell uses luminous prose to deliver a tenderly woven tale of love, loss and the ties that bind us across time.
From the best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait comes a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood.
"An exquisitely sensual tale of love, motherhood, and other forms of madness, The Hand That First Held Mine will unsettle, move, and haunt you." —Emma Donoghue, author of Room
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Where to Start Reading Maggie O’Farrell
With vivid detail and elegantly weaved prose, Maggie O’Farrell builds deeply human characters and richly layered settings. Capturing anything from love and grief to scents and textures, her novels like This Must Be the Place and The Hand that First Held Mine bring the ordinary to life with vibrant detail. Her moving historical tale, Hamnet […]
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