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 _____ ⭐ What readers are saying ⭐ ' Moving funny life affirming and
devastating all at once' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'I have never been so emotionally moved by a book!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
⭐ ⭐ 'Made my heart swell and break in turn. Beautifully written' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐