After You'D Gone

"After You'd Gone" by Maggie O'Farrell, published by Headline Review Publishing. 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.''The complex structure works beautifully, communicating the shared and interlocking sufferings of the Raikes women through its carefully worked-out layering of narrative lines. Often painful to read, but finally quite satisfying.'' - Kirkus ReviewsA 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 in a family's heart.''It's the depiction of... deceptively small moments that is O'Farrell's winning gift... Her absorbing characters gracefully circle one another 'round the room like moths at the light bulb,' grazing their wings against life's raw heat instead of being consumed by it.'' - The New York Times Book ReviewA riveting story that skips through time and interweaves multiple points of view, After You'd Gone is a novel of stunning psychological depth and marks the debut of a major literary talent. Book details: 372 pages, published 2001. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.