After You'd Gone

A young woman named Alice Raikes boards a train to Scotland to visit her family. But when she arrives, she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London that very minute. Only a few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt. With Alice's life hanging in the balance, her family gathers at her bedside. As they wait, argue, & remember, longburied tensions rise to the surface. The more they talk, the more, it seems, they conceal from each other. Alice, meanwhile, sliding between different levels of consciousness, recalls her past & a recent love affair. Skipping around in time, knitting together the different points of view with astonishing dexterity & beautiful prose, Maggie O'Farrell has created a story of love & family relationships that is reminiscent of the very best of Edna O'Brien & Mary Gordon. With one of the most heart-stopping openings in modern fiction, After You'd Gone is a work of extraordinary psychological depth & impressive maturity.O'Farrell, Maggie is the author of 'After You'd Gone' with ISBN 9780670894482 and ISBN 0670894486.