After You'd Gone, 9780747268161
Paperback
A coma unlocks family secrets, love, loss, and devastating choices.

After You'd Gone

from the author of hamnet - one of the most unforgettable love stories you'll ever read

  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 2010

Summary

After You’d Gone: A Novel of Love, Loss, and Lingering Secrets

AFTER YOU’D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O’Farrell, author of HAMNET 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 ge…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780747268161
ISBN-10:0747268169
Author:Maggie O'Farrell
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:Headline Review
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:31 March 2010
Weight:274g
Dimensions:197mm x 131mm x 26mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

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

Maggie O’Farrell is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU’D GONE, MY LOVER’S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize. She is also the author of three books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK and WHEN THE STAMMER CAME TO STAY. She lives in Edinburgh.

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