by Maggie O'Farrell · LIBROS DEL ASTEROIDE S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417007379
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«La primera mano que sostuvo la mía» is the novel by Maggie O'Farrell (Libros del Asteroide, paperback, 340 pages, in Spanish).
Lexie Sinclair leaves the countryside for the bohemian London of the 1950s, where she meets Innes Kent, editor of an art magazine. Years later, in today's London, motherhood unsettles Elina's memory, while Ted, her partner, sinks into forgotten childhood memories. Art, love and betrayal establish parallels between the two women.
Winner of the Costa Novel Award in 2010; the work was originally published as «The Hand That First Held Mine». Translation by Concha Cardeñoso. Volume 196 of the Libros del Asteroide collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and British narrative, with an interest in plots about family, motherhood and London.
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.
