num_pages: 384
description: Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt. Alice's family gathers at her bedside and as they wait, argue, and remember, long-buried tensions emerge. The more they talk, the more they seem to conceal. Alice, meanwhile, slides between varying levels of consciousness, recalling her past and a love affair that recently ended. A riveting story that skips through time and interweaves multiple points of view, After You'd Gone is a novel of stunning psychological depth and marks the debut of a major literary talent.
language: English
title: After You'd Gone
titlecomplete: After You'd Gone
characters: Alice Raikes, Ann Raikes, Ben Raikes, John Friedmann
genres: Family, Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary, Scotland, Chick Lit, Literary Fiction, Romance, Adult Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 15559
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Penguin Books