After You'd Gone (20-20 Special Edition)

After You'd Gone (20-20 Special Edition)

by Maggie O ' Farrell (Author)

Synopsis

"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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 03 Apr 2006

ISBN 10: 0755330722
ISBN 13: 9780755330720

Media Reviews
* '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
Author Bio
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.