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“After You'd Gone” is the groundbreaking debut novel from the award-winning Maggie O'Farrell, author of “Hamnet” and “The Marriage Portrait.” It is a stunning, bestselling novel of wrenching love and grief.
Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there, she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt. Alice's family gathers at her bedside and as they wait, argue, and remember, long-buried tensions emerge. The more they talk, the more they seem to conceal. Alice, meanwhile, slides between varying levels of consciousness, recalling her past and a love affair that recently ended. A riveting story that skips through time and interweaves multiple points of view, “After You'd Gone” is a novel of stunning psychological depth, marking the debut of a major literary talent.
Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there, she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt. Alice's family gathers at her bedside and as they wait, argue, and remember, long-buried tensions emerge. The more they talk, the more they seem to conceal. Alice, meanwhile, slides between varying levels of consciousness, recalling her past and a love affair that recently ended. A riveting story that skips through time and interweaves multiple points of view, “After You'd Gone” is a novel of stunning psychological depth, marking the debut of a major literary talent.
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