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Author: O’Farrell, Maggie

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 27 March 2025 by Headline Publishing Group (Tinder Press) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 384 pages
196 x 129 x 27 | 268g

The groundbreaking debut novel from the bestselling author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT: one of the most extraordinary love stories you’ll ever read.

*Over 480,000 copies sold* ‘This devastatingly skilful love story will break your heart!’ Alice Winn’Gripping. Superbly moving’ Ali SmithA 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.

‘Remarkable. Luminous’ Observer’Deeply moving’ The Times’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 they’re gone?’ Glamour? What readers are saying; ?

‘Moving, funny, life affirming and devastating all at once’ ? ? ? ? ?

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‘Made my heart swell and break in turn. Beautifully written’ ? ? ? ? ?