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 the family's heart.
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'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?' -- Glamour 'A memorable debut' -- Daily Telegraph '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' -- Sunday Telegraph 'an engrossing study of loss and family ties, delivered with the page-turning pace of a thriller' -- Independent on Sunday
About the Author
Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972, and grew up in South Wales and North Bewick. After studying English Literature at Cambridge, and travelling in the Far East and Mongolia, she moved to London, where she worked at the Poetry Society and as a journalist. AFTER YOU'D GONE is her first novel.
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MAGGIE O'FARRELL is the author of four previous novels, including the acclaimed The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, which was a B&N Recommends Pick, and After You'd Gone. Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, O'Farrell grew up in Wales and Scotland. She has two children.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A book to read again,
By Happy Feet (Camp Hill, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: After You'd Gone (Paperback)
I borrowed this book several years ago, but still remember it as one of my all-time favorites (and therefore I'm ordering a copy for myself to re-read). Check out the detailed reviews on the hardcover edition, and you'll see it has a very favorable 4.7 rating. Did the ending leave me hanging? No, it left me hopeful. ps: I'm also hoping for more Maggie O'Farrell novels like this one ...
5.0 out of 5 stars
Heartrending,
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This is one of my favourite books. Well-written, superbly-crafted, this has a permanent place on my bookshelf. Even though I know the ending, I still can't help being drawn in by the wonderful chemistry between the characters, the ease of her writing. The book begins with the end, and goes back to show us how she arrived there, bereft. We see flashes of Alice's emotionally difficult childhood, in which she is always out-of-step with everyone around her, moving along through adult life to a romance that feels like a homecoming. But there's an undercurrent, a bit of mystery, culminating for Alice in the final pages with a sudden revelation that makes perfect, tragic sense of all the ill-fitting moments in her life.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting....but left me hanging,
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I liked this book. Each chapter jumps from present day to past events leading to this unknown horrible event that you are reminded of in every chapter but you don't know what it is. I liked the book but I only gave it 3 stars b/cs I didn't like the ending.
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