After You'd Gone: The groundbreaking debut from the author of Hamnet

Description: After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell Maggie OFarrells groundbreaking debut: a stunning, best-selling story of wrenching love and grief FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description AFTER YOUD GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie OFarrell, 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 Kings 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 YOUD GONE follows Alices 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 familys heart. Notes B format paperback edition of one of the most widely acclaimed debut novels of last year. A literary thriller which is both a love story and a story of absence, and which gradually draws us into the dark secret at the heart of one family. "An effortlerss read... a compulsively readable and accomplished first novel" Lesley Glaister, Independent 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. Flap Beautifully contstructed... unashamedly passionate Guardian Alice Raikes boards a train at Kings 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 @TinderPress Author Biography Maggie OFarrell is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Womens Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOUD GONE, MY LOVERS 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 Womens 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. Review This weepy, now out in paperback, is guaranteed to leave you out of Kleenex... your life stands still as you turn the pages. An amazing study of love and grief as it poses the wrenching question: What do you do with all the love you have for someone when theyre gone? - GlamourA memorable debut - Daily TelegraphMaggie OFarrell keeps the reader guessing right up to the end in this engrossing psychological mystery... the characterisation is excellent and the dialogue immaculate - Sunday TelegraphAn engrossing study of loss and family ties, delivered with the page-turning pace of a thriller - Independent on Sunday Promotional Maggie OFarrells groundbreaking debut: a stunning, best-selling story of wrenching love and grief Kirkus UK Review OFarrells 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. Alices 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, Alices parents, rush to her hospital bed when a catastrophe occurs and, while waiting and hoping for their daughters recovery, take stock of their own compromised marriage. An original, thoughtful novel and a good read. Revied by Judy Cooke. Editors note: Judy Cooke is the editor of New Fiction for British Council, former editor of Fiction magazine. (Kirkus UK) Kirkus US Review First-time novelist OFarrell powerfully reworks a seemingly familiar tale..At the outset, Alice Raikes is suffering from some terrible, unexplained hurt. Impulsively she dashes from her North London home to see her sisters in Edinburgh. But while theyre picking her up at the train station, she sees something that upsets her even more and minutes later jumps back on the train to London. That night shes hit by a car, either accidentally or as the result of a suicide attempt. After this mysterious and disturbing prologue, OFarrell proceeds to tell the story of three generations of Raikes women and their lives in the small Scottish town of North Berwick, focusing primarily on Alice. Her actions in the opening pages are actually not really atypical: Alice is impetuous and moody, unlike her precise, chilly English mother and her quiet, methodical Scots grandmother. OFarrell constructs the saga of these three women as a series of brief, interlocking vignettes, shifting between many layers of past and present, juggling some half-dozen different viewpoints. Deeply felt but very secret pain is the attribute that unites all of these characters, even Alices barely glimpsed father-in-law, whose absence turns out to be a pivotal element in the story. Alices seeming suicide attempt is a catalyst, a stone thrown into a pool that precipitates ripples of misery that wash back into the past and forward to the future. OFarrell is an astute observer of little behaviors, the telling fidgets and habits of everyday existence, and shes at her best when piecing these together to create a sense of a real life experienced through fiction. 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 Reviews) Long Description AFTER YOUD GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie OFarrell, 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 Kings 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 YOUD GONE follows Alices 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 familys heart. Review Quote This weepy, now out in paperback, is guaranteed to leave you out of Kleenex... your life stands still as you turn the pages. An amazing study of love and grief as it poses the wrenching question: What do you do with all the love you have for someone when theyre gone? - GlamourA memorable debut - Daily TelegraphMaggie OFarrell keeps the reader guessing right up to the end in this engrossing psychological mystery... the characterisation is excellent and the dialogue immaculate - Sunday TelegraphAn engrossing study of loss and family ties, delivered with the page-turning pace of a thriller - Independent on Sunday Promotional "Headline" Maggie OFarrells groundbreaking debut: a stunning, best-selling story of wrenching love and grief Description for Sales People One of our most critically acclaimed, bestselling novelists, Maggie OFarrell is an author with a unique connection to her readership. She has sold over one million copies of her books through UK Bookscan. Details ISBN0747268169 Author Maggie OFarrell Publisher Headline Publishing Group ISBN-10 0747268169 ISBN-13 9780747268161 Format Paperback Imprint Headline Review Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.92 Media Book Year 2001 Birth 1972 Pages 384 Publication Date 2001-04-05 Language English UK Release Date 2001-04-05 Audience General AU Release Date 2010-03-31 NZ Release Date 2010-03-31 Subtitle The groundbreaking debut from the author of Hamnet - one of the most unforgettable love stories youll ever read We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:1271926;

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