TY - JOUR T1 - The Hand That First Held Mine JF - Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care JO - J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care SP - 203 LP - 203 DO - 10.1136/jfprhc-2011-100195 VL - 37 IS - 4 AU - Gillian Robinson Y1 - 2011/10/01 UR - http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/37/4/203.abstract N2 - The Hand That First Held Mine Maggie O'Farrell. London, UK: Headline Publishing Group, 2011. ISBN-13: 978-0-755-30846-0. Price £7.99. Pages: 384 (paperback)The novel starts as two independent stories that initially are told in alternating chapters. The first is a passionate love affair set in Soho in London in the 1950s. The couple meet in Devon, over a garden fence, but the scene swiftly moves to the capital and Lexie, a young impressionable graduate, moves in with Innes, a self-confessed hedonist and a journalist. They live for several years in Hampstead, working together on a magazine … ER -