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After You'd Gone
A Literary Fiction Novel by Maggie O'Farrell
Subgenres:
- Family Drama,
- Psychological Fiction,
- Multi-POV
This book is for you if you're into...
- Fractured family dramas where secrets surface at a hospital bedside
- Narratives that shift through memory, consciousness, and multiple perspectives
- Psychological fiction exploring the aftermath of a shocking event
The stunning, groundbreaking debut novel of wrenching love and grief from the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and National Book Circle Award Winner Hamnet.
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.
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