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.
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.
