![]() She doesn't recognize herself: she finds herself walking outside with no shoes she goes to the restaurant for lunch at nine in the morning she can't recall the small matter of giving birth. Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood. ![]() And when she finds herself pregnant, she doesn't hesitate to have the baby on her own. She creates many lives-all of them unconventional. She learns to be a reporter, to know art and artists, to embrace her life fully and with a deep love at the center of it. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears duck-egg blue ties and introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war Soho. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. ![]() ![]() Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. A spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood. ![]()
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