After You'd Gone

by Maggie O'Farrell

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 the family's heart.

• ISBN10: 1472207440
• ISBN13: 9781472207449
• Publish Date: 15 September 2011 (first published 6 April 2000)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 29 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
• Imprint: Headline Book Publishing
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

Although not the best book I've ever read, it wasn't the worst. I liked how the different stories unfolded and found it compelling, although the changing viewpoints could be a bit confusing. There was heaps of family drama - although the blurb focuses on Alice - it's really about her family. There's generations of secrets and truths and lies and feelings. If you like contemporary dramas this is for you. Unfortunately, it's not really my thing.