The groundbreaking debut novel from the bestselling author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
‘Gripping. Superbly moving’ Ali Smith
A distraught young woman boards a train at King’s Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Waverley Station that she gets on the next train back to London.
AFTER YOU’D GONE follows Alice’s mental journey through her own past, after a traffic accident has left her in a coma. A love story that is also a story of absence, and of how our choices can reverberate through the generations, it slowly draws us closer to a dark secret at a family’s heart.
‘Remarkable. Luminous’ Observer
‘Deeply moving’ The Times
‘An amazing study of love and grief as it poses the wrenching question: What do you do with all the love you have for someone when they’re gone?’ Glamour
‘Gripping. Superbly moving’ Ali Smith
A distraught young woman boards a train at King’s Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Waverley Station that she gets on the next train back to London.
AFTER YOU’D GONE follows Alice’s mental journey through her own past, after a traffic accident has left her in a coma. A love story that is also a story of absence, and of how our choices can reverberate through the generations, it slowly draws us closer to a dark secret at a family’s heart.
‘Remarkable. Luminous’ Observer
‘Deeply moving’ The Times
‘An amazing study of love and grief as it poses the wrenching question: What do you do with all the love you have for someone when they’re gone?’ Glamour
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Reviews
This weepy, now out in paperback, is guaranteed to leave you out of Kleenex... your life stands still as you turn the pages. An amazing study of love and grief as it poses the wrenching question: What do you do with all the love you have for someone when they're gone?
A memorable debut
Maggie O'Farrell keeps the reader guessing right up to the end in this engrossing psychological mystery... the characterisation is excellent and the dialogue immaculate
An engrossing study of loss and family ties, delivered with the page-turning pace of a thriller