After You'd Gone

'Beautifully contstructed... unashamedly passionate' Guardian
Alice Raikes boards a train at King's Cross to vsit her sisters in Scotland. Hours later, she steps into the traffic on a busy London road and is taken to hospital in a coma.
Who or what did she see in Edinburgh that made her return so suddenly? Was the accident a suicide attempt? And what exactly do her family, waiting at her bedside, have to hide? Sliding between different levels of consciusness, Alice begins to listen to the conversations around her, and begins sifting through recollections of her past, and of a recently curtailed love affair.
'Superb... deeply moving' The Times
'Had me so gripped I had to feign illness in order to devote myself to it entirely' Esther Freud
'This tens, involving and disturbing read... kept me up half the night, unable to put it down' Mail on Sunday
Maggie author pic by barcode (c) Murdo MacLeod
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Maggie O'Farrell is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She is also the author of two books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO and THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK. She lives in Edinburgh.