Maggie O'Farrell
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Lexie Sinclair yearns for more than her parents' genteel country life. She makes her way to the city, where she meets a magazine
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editor, Innes, a man unlike any she has ever imagined. He introduces her to the thrilling world of bohemian postwar London, and Lexie learns to become a reporter, to know art and artists, to live fully, unconventionally, and with deep love. And when she finds herself pregnant by a man wholly unsuitable for marriage or fatherhood, she doesn't hesitate a minute to have the baby on her own. Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood. Her boyfriend, Ted, traumatized by nearly losing her in labor, begins to recover lost memories. At first he cannot place them, but as they emerge, we discover something heartbreaking and beautiful that connects these two stories.
A stunning portrait of motherhood and the artist's life in all their terror and glory, Maggie O'Farrell's newest novel 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.
Review
O'Farrell brings to mind Sue Miller but with a British and darker flavor; her sure hand for psychological suspense (
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox) continues to be most impressive. --Library Journal
About the Author
MAGGIE O'FARRELL is the author of four previous novels, including the acclaimed
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, which was a Barnes & Noble Recommends Pick, and
After You'd Gone. Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, she grew up in Wales and Scotland. She has two children.
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