After You'd Gone

A Novel

De: Maggie O'Farrell

Narrado por: Lesley Mackie

After You’d Gone is the groundbreaking debut novel from National Book Critics Circle Award winner Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait. A stunning, bestselling novel of wrenching love and grief.

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, marking the debut of a major literary talent.

©2023 Maggie O'Farrell (P)2023 Vintage Canada

Reseñas de la Crítica

Winner, Betty Trask Prize & Award (UK), 2001

“A memorable debut." —Daily Telegraph

“O’Farrell has written a deeply elusive book, one made more mysterious, somehow, by her wonderful sense of detail.” —Los Angeles Times

“An engrossing study of loss and family ties, delivered with the page-turning pace of a thriller.” —Independent on Sunday