by Maggie O'Farrell · Tinder Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780755308460
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«The Hand That First Held Mine» is the novel by Maggie O'Farrell, published by Tinder Press in paperback (374 pages, in English).
In the 1950s, Lexie Sinclair becomes part of the Soho art scene. In the present, Elina and Ted face the birth of their first child; she balances motherhood with her art and he doubts childhood memories that contradict his family. The novel blends both eras until revealing an unexpected connection between two women.
Published in 2011, the novel won the Costa Novel Award 2010 and was a Sunday Times bestseller.
An option for readers of literary and historical fiction with an interest in family life and narratives of two intertwined eras.
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.
