After You'd Gone By MAGGIE O'FARRELL Viking. Read the Review. The only bit Alice can see of her father is the soles of his shoes. They are a faded brown, striated with the grit and terrain of the pavements he has walked. She is allowed to run along the pavement outside their house to meet him coming home from work in the evening. Maggie O'Farrell is the author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, and eight 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 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, which was /5(K). · PM. Interesting interpretations! It's been quite a while since I read the book, but I thought Alice lived. Alice was never accepted by John's father when John was alive, so I took his presence by her hospital bedside to signify his forgiveness and desire to .
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 the family's heart. Maggie O'Farrell's groundbreaking debut: a stunning, best-selling story of wrenching love and grief. AFTER YOU'D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O'Farrell, author of HAMNET and I AM, I AM, I AM. 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. Maggie O'Farrell: 'I wrote at least 17 separate drafts of After You'd Gone' The Costa and Women's prize winner on the long gestation of her debut novel Maggie O'Farrell: 'I discovered the.
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, and eight 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 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, and HAMNET. PM. Interesting interpretations! It's been quite a while since I read the book, but I thought Alice lived. Alice was never accepted by John's father when John was alive, so I took his presence by her hospital bedside to signify his forgiveness and desire to build a relationship with his daughter-in-law. After You'd Gone is Northern Irish author Maggie O'Farrell's debut novel. Published in by Headline Review it garnered 'international acclaim' and won a Betty Trask Award. O'Farrell started writing the story which was to become After You'd Gone Home at an Arvon Foundation course in Yorkshire. It was praised by her tutors, Barbara Trapido and Elspeth Barker.
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