After You'd Gone (Paperback, New Ed)

O'Farrell's first novel is a study of contemporary love and loss. She writes with ease and sensitivity as she unfolds an elaborate plot, linking two generations without losing the main emotional drive of her story. The central character, Alice Raikes, is rushing back to her family home in Edinburgh, where her sisters are expecting her; without any explanation to them, or the reader, she no sooner arrives than something spurs her to catch the next train south. Her reasons are gradually unravelled in a series of flashbacks. The central theme of the book is love in all its complications - between parent and child, man and woman. Alice's relationship with John Friedmann develops after some false starts during her years at London University. The daily intimacy of the lovers is depicted as skilfully as the passions which first bind them and the social and religious allegiances which divide them. John is the son of an Orthodox Jew. Ben and Anne, Alice's parents, rush to her hospital bed when a catastrophe occurs and, while waiting and hoping for their daughter's recovery, take stock of their own compromised marriage. An original, thoughtful novel and a good read. Revied by Judy Cooke. Editor's note: Judy Cooke is the editor of New Fiction for British Council, former editor of Fiction magazine. (Kirkus UK)

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.

General

Imprint:	Headline Review
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2001
Authors:	Maggie O'Farrell
Dimensions:	197 x 129 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format / B-format
Pages:	372
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7472-6816-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-7472-6816-9
Barcode:	9780747268161

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