Hand That First Held Mine Walt Whitman Mungo McGrotty's career in Whitehall

Mungo McGrotty's career in Whitehall is going nowhere

Beach Read is a whip-smart

and the routines of her dormmates seem darker and more alien than ever before

Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies

or dared to dream beyond the ordinary

Hand That First Held Mine Walt Whitman Mungo McGrotty's career in WhitehallFrom the best selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait comes a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood. Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post