Product Description
After You’d Gone
Author: Maggie O'Farrell
Format: Paperback
The groundbreaking debut novel from the bestselling author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT: one of the most extraordinary love stories you’ll ever read.
Over 480,000 copies sold.
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.
‘This devastatingly skilful love story will break your heart!’ — Alice Winn
‘Gripping. Superbly moving’ — Ali Smith
‘Such a visceral, heartrending read about grief and love’ — Claire Daverley
‘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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