After You'd Gone

The groundbreaking debut novel from the bestselling author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, featuring a review by Ali Smith ''This devastatingly skilful love story will break your heart!'' Alice Winn ''Gripping. Superbly moving'' Ali Smith ''Such a visceral, heartrending read about grief and love, and how life can be both a marvel and a tragedy all at once'' Claire Daverley 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. ''Remarkable.