Résumé
AFTER YOU'D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa Award winning Maggie O'Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE. It is a stunning, best-selling novel 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 a family's heart.
Quatrième de couverture
'Beautifully contstructed... unashamedly passionate' GuardianAlice Raikes boards a train at King's Cross to vsit her sisters in Scotland. Hours later, she steps into the traffic on a busy London road and is taken to hospital in a coma.Who or what did she see in Edinburgh that made her return so suddenly? Was the accident a suicide attempt? And what exactly do her family, waiting at her bedside, have to hide? Sliding between different levels of consciusness, Alice begins to listen to the conversations around her, and begins sifting through recollections of her past, and of a recently curtailed love affair.'Superb... deeply moving' The Times'Had me so gripped I had to feign illness in order to devote myself to it entirely' Esther Freud'This tens, involving and disturbing read... kept me up half the night, unable to put it down' Mail on SundayMaggie author pic by barcode (c) Murdo MacLeodwww.tinderpress.co.ukwww.maggieofarrell.com@TinderPressBiographie de l'auteurMaggie O'Farrell is the author of seven novels, AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. She lives in Edinburgh.
À propos de l'auteur
O'Farrell, Maggie
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of seven novels, AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. She lives in Edinburgh.
Fiche technique
- Titre : After You'd Gone
- Auteur : O'Farrell, Maggie
- Langue : Anglais
- Format : Broché
- Nombre de pages : 384
- Genre : Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Date de publication : 05-04-2001
- Édition : Tinder Press
- Poids : 0.225403919 kg
- Dimensions : 13.0999738 x 2.5999948 x 19.6999606 cm
- ISBN-10 : 0747268169
- ISBN-13 : 9780747268161
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