Book description
A gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, this is a tour de
force from one of our most acclaimed and best loved novelists. When the
bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep,
Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to
begin, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art
scene, she carves out a new life for herself, with Innes at her side. In
the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of
their first child. Elina, a painter, struggles to reconcile the demands
of motherhood with sense of herself as an artist, and Ted is disturbed
by memories of his own childhood, memories that don't tally with his
parents' version of events. As Ted begins to search for answers, so an
extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed, separated by fifty
years, but connected in ways that neither could ever have expected.
