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Author_Maggie O'Farrell
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family
Francis Spufford
grief
HAMNET
Hilary Mantel
I AM
Ian McEwan
INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE
Kate Atkinson
LIFE AFTER LIFE
literary fiction
love
lyrical
Margaret Atwood
passion
psychological
Sarah Waters
Sarah Winman
Sebastian Faulks
SMALL ISLAND
The Costa Award winner
THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE
THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
The Women's Prize for Fiction winner
WOLF HALL
women's fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780747268161
- Weight: 274g
- Dimensions: 131 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 05 Apr 2001
- Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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AFTER YOU'D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O'Farrell, author of HAMNET and I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love and grief.
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 a family's heart.
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 three books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK and WHEN THE STAMMER CAME TO STAY. She lives in Edinburgh.
