The groundbreaking debut novel from the bestselling author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT: one of the most extraordinary love stories you''ll ever read.
*Over 480,000 copies sold*
''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'' 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. Luminous'' Observer
''Deeply moving'' The Times
''An amazing study of love and grief as it poses the wrenching question: What do you do with all the love you have for someone when they''re gone?'' Glamour
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⭐ What readers are saying; ⭐
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''Made my heart swell and break in turn. Beautifully written'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
