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Lexie Sinclair yearns for more than her parents' genteel country life. She makes her way to the town, where she meets a magazine editor, Innes, a man unlike any she's ever truly imagined. He introduces her to the thrilling world of bohemian postwar London, and Lexie discovers to become reporter, to know art and artists, to live completely, unconventionally, and with profound love. So when she detects herself pregnant by a man wholly unsuitable for matrimony or fatherhood, she doesn't hesitate a minute to have the baby on her behalf own. Later, in present-day London, a young painter called Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood. Her sweetheart, Ted, traumatized by almost dropping her in labor, begins to recuperate lost memories. At first he cannot place them, but as they emerge, we discover something heartbreaking and beautiful that connects these two experiences.
A stunning portrait of motherhood and the artist's life in all their terror and glory, Maggie O'Farrell's hottest novel is a stunning inquiry in to the ways we make and unmake our lives, who we know ourselves to be, and how even our most unintentional legacies hook up us.
