After You'd Gone by Maggie O'farrell

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'farrell

"The classic 'love story both tender and tragic" - "Financial Times". 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 which 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.

"* 'An effortless read.. A compulsively readable and accomplished first novel' - Lesley Glaister, Independent on Sunday * 'Such an accomplished performance... A memorable debut' - Shena MacKay, Telegraph * 'Grips the reader from its first, dramatic pages... Kept me up half the night, unable to put it down' - Mail on Sunday * 'A writer of rare insight and intellect with a feel for language that renders her love story both tender and tragic' - Financial Times * 'Dazzlingly good... When I finished it, I'm not embarrassed to say, I wept' - Big Issue * 'Deeply moving... O'Farrell textures the plot brilliantly, wrapping the bare bones in a rich flesh' - Times Metro"

Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972, and grew up in Wales and Scotland. She now lives in London. She has worked at the Poetry Society and at the Independent on Sunday, where she was Deputy Literary Editor. Her debut novel, After You'd Gone, was published to international acclaim, and won a Betty Trask Award.

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ISBN 13	9780755330720
ISBN 10	0755330722
Title	After You'd Gone
Author	Maggie O'farrell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Headline Publishing Group
Year published	2006-04-03
Number of pages	384
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