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The Hand That First Held Mine, authored by Maggie O’Farrell, is a Costa Book Award winning novel published in the year 2010. Summary of the Book Lexie Sinclair is a smart and passionate lady who comes from a rural area and from an unstable family. She leaves for London’s flourishing art scene, which is the centre for art after war. She falls in love with Innes Kent, a magazine editor. On the other hand, after an interlude of a few decades, there is a Finnish-Swedish painter Elina, who births the son of Ted, a film editor. The caesarean section posed danger but she survives. How are these two stories related? Find out in this award-winning unputdownable novel. About Maggie O’Farrell Maggie O’Farrell was born in Ireland. She is one of the famous contemporary fiction writers. She won the Costa Novel Award for The Hand That First Held Me in the year 2010. In 2013, she was shortlisted for the same award for her novel Instructions for a Heatwave. Some of the other novels penned by Maggie O’Farrell are The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Distance between Us, After You'd Gone and My Lover’s Lover.