© Phantom Press, 2013
Enclosed within her parents' genteel country home in Devon, Lexie Sinclair yearns for more. She makes her way to the big city where she meets a magazine editor, Innes, who introduces her to the thrilling underground world of bohemian postwar London. She learns to be a reporter, to know art and artists, to live her life fully and with a deep love at the center of it. When that love is threatened, she nearly loses the self she worked so hard to find. But then, she will create many lives, all of them unconventional. And when she finds herself pregnant by a man wholly unsuitable for marriage or fatherhood, she doesn't hesitate for a minute to have the baby on her own, to be shaped by her love for her child.
Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood. Her boyfriend, Ted, traumatized by nearly losing her in labor, begins to recover lost memories. He cannot place them. But as they become more disconcerting and return more frequently, we discover that something connects these two stories - these two women - something that becomes all the more heartbreaking and beautiful as they all hurtle toward its revelation.
Headline Review 2010
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