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 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.
Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupISBN: 9780747268161Number of pages: 384Weight: 274 gDimensions: 197 x 131 x 26 mm
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Maggie O'Farrell keeps the reader guessing right up to the end in this engrossing psychological mystery... the characterisation is excellent and the dialogue immaculateA memorable debutAn engrossing study of loss and family ties,delivered with the page-turning pace of a thrillerThis 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
Maggie O'Farrell
Waterstones has been a keen early advocate of Maggie O'Farrell since we identified her as a talent to watch in our 25 Authors of the Future list back in 2007 aftersupporting her brilliant debutAfter You'd Gone. Since then she's continued to impress with novels including:Instructions for a Heatwave,The Hand That First Held Mine(for which she won the Costa Book Award) and This Must Be the Place.
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