After You'd Gone

Maggie O'Farrell
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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.
Genres: FictionContemporaryRomanceLiterary FictionMysteryBook ClubScotlandFamilyNovelsAudiobook
384 Pages

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