num_pages: 384
description: Maggie O'Farrell's groundbreaking debut: a stunning, best-selling story 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 the family's heart.
language: English
title: After You'd Gone
titlecomplete: After You'd Gone
characters: Alice Raikes, John Friedmann, Ann Raikes, Ben Raikes
genres: Mystery, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family, Scotland, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 15548
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Headline Review