After Youd Gone is the groundbreaking debut novel from the National Book Critics Circle winning Maggie OFarrell, author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait. It is a stunning, best-selling 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.
- | Author: Maggie O'Farrell
- | Publisher: Vintage
- | Publication Date: Aug 15, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 400 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0593684796
- | ISBN-13: 9780593684795