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AFTER YOU'D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O'Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love and grief. 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.
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After you'd gone, Maggie O. Farrell
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- Released
- 2000
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- Title
- After you'd gone
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Maggie O. Farrell
- Publisher
- Headline Book Publ.
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0747268169
- ISBN13
- 9780747268161
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Mystery Novels, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Scotland
- Original title
- After you'd gone
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- AFTER YOU'D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O'Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love and grief. 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.