After You'd Gone [Import] [Hardcover]

Maggie O'Farrell (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Review (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0747271100
• ISBN-13: 978-0747271109
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,353,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book to read again, December 12, 2010

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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, September 26, 2011

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K. M. Brooke "avid reader" (Godalming, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After You'd Gone (Paperback)

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, January 29, 2008

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SJ "shopgirl444" (CT) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: After You'd Gone (Paperback)

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.