Lexie Sinclair is waiting for her life to begin. When Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep, she realises she can wait mo longer, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, Lexie carves out a new life for herself, with Innes on her side. In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the birth of her first child. As Elina, a painter, struggles with the demands of motherhood, Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood that don’t tally with his parents’ version of events. As Ted searches for answers, so an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed: separated by fifty years, Lexie and Elina are connected in ways that neither of them could never have expected. The story is Maggie O’Farrell’s richest and most rewarding book to date: a tour de force from our most acclaimed novelists.
