When Innes first spies Lexie in the 1950’s, he is enthralled. She’s desperate to escape her boring English village and her siblings. She heads to London and works in a department store, but Innes soon entices her to his office where they make an inseparable team writing articles for his magazine.
After Elina and Ted’s son is born, Ted begins to have flashes of childhood images, but none of them fit the memories his mother has instilled in him. Elina is concerned, but when she tries to console Ted, he brushes her off.
What is it that connects these two unlikely groups of characters in yet another gripping O’Farrell novel?
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