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After You'd Gone Maggie O'Farrell

After You'd Gone By Maggie O'Farrell

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell


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Summary

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. This book follows Alice's mental journey through her own past, after a traffic accident has left her in a coma.

After You'd Gone Summary

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

The classic 'love story both tender and tragic - Financial Times. 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 which 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.

After You'd Gone Reviews

* 'An effortless read... A compulsively readable and accomplished first novel' - Lesley Glaister, Independent on Sunday * 'Such an accomplished performance... A memorable debut' - Shena MacKay, Telegraph * 'Grips the reader from its first, dramatic pages... Kept me up half the night, unable to put it down' - Mail on Sunday * 'A writer of rare insight and intellect with a feel for language that renders her love story both tender and tragic' - Financial Times * 'Dazzlingly good... When I finished it, I'm not embarrassed to say, I wept' - Big Issue * 'Deeply moving... O'Farrell textures the plot brilliantly, wrapping the bare bones in a rich flesh' - Times Metro

About Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972, and grew up in Wales and Scotland. She now lives in London. She has worked at the Poetry Society and at the Independent on Sunday, where she was Deputy Literary Editor. Her debut novel, After You'd Gone, was published to international acclaim, and won a Betty Trask Award.

Additional information

GOR001687878
9780755330720
0755330722
After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Headline Publishing Group
20060403
384
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