The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell
Submitted by lluncheon on Tue, 2012-11-20 10:06
I have belatedly discovered Maggie O'Farrell, but I am entranced. She
has a striking writing style: clear and concise, blunt and at times
brutal. Nonetheless her sentence construction and word choice are
filled with eloquence and poetry. The Hand that First Held Mine
weaves together the stories of two couples in postwar and modern
London, shifting back and forth in time to gradually reveal points of
connection in their city and their lives. We meet a woman who abruptly
leaves her parents and claims a new identity in London, a writer
returned from war, a young mother with severe blood loss from giving
birth who may have post partum depression and a young man with no memory
of his childhood. By living in the present, they avoid or forget the
past, but their memories seep in and carry the plot forward.
$18.99
ISBN: 9780547423180
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Published: Mariner Books - January 26th, 2011
