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After You'd Gone by O'Farrell, Maggie is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is After You'd Gone about?

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."The complex structure works beautifully, communicating the shared and interlocking sufferings of the Raikes women through its carefully worked-out layering of narrative lines. Often painful to read, but finally quite satisfying." - Kirkus ReviewsA 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 in a family's heart."It's the depiction of... deceptively small moments that is O'Farrell's winning gift... Her absorbing characters gracefully circle one another 'round the room like moths at the light bulb,' grazing their wings against life's

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
O'Farrell, Maggie
Publisher
Headline Book Publishing
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780747287841
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Romance
Rating
3.98 / 5 (512 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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