by Maggie O'Farrell · L'Altra Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494782947
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Young Lexie Sinclair dreams of an extraordinary life and plans to escape to London from her small town. There she meets Innes Kent, who introduces her to the exciting world of bohemian Soho in the fifties, where she learns to be a reporter and meets important artists. Years later, in contemporary London, Elina, a young painter, navigates the first weeks of motherhood, struggling to find herself and unable to remember details about her birth. Her partner, Ted, is also disconcerted by fatherhood, which has unearthed confusing memories. Maggie O'Farrell presents a novel about two women connected over fifty years through art, love, betrayal, secrets and motherhood.
Maggie O'Farrell FRSL is an Irish-British novelist. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. O'Farrell co-adapted the book for the screen with Chloé Zhao in 2025, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on the film.
