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After You'd Gone

Maggie O'Farrell

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

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Original Title:	After You'd Gone
ISBN:	0142000329 (ISBN13: 9780142000328)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.maggieofarrell.com/
Characters:	Alice Raikes, John Friedmann, Ann Raikes, Ben Raikes
Literary Awards:	Betty Trask Award (2001)

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Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt. Alice's family gathers at her bedside and as they wait, argue, and remember, long-buried tensions emerge. The more they talk, the more they seem to conceal. Alice, meanwhile, slides between varying levels of consciousness, recalling her past and a love affair that recently ended. A riveting story that skips through time and interweaves multiple points of view, After You'd Gone is a novel of stunning psychological depth and marks the debut of a major literary talent.

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Title	:	After You'd Gone
Author	:	Maggie O'Farrell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	February 26th 2002 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Romance

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I read this years and years ago.

From the beginning I wanted to know what the awful thing was that Alice sees that causes her to leave Scotland so abruptly after just arriving for a family visit. Shes in a coma, after being hit by a car as she reflects back on her life, her loves, her family, as she grieves a loss. The narrative moves back and forth from past to present, from first to third person, and the reflections are not just Alices. Maggie OFarrell does this phenomenal thing by moving back and forth between different

Yo begin i must clarify that this is my favorite book of all. I read it the first time when i was in high school and have re read it a few times ever since. I just love the writing type of Maggie O'farrell and for a first novel this is amazing. The book is about Alice a woman who at the beginning of the novel is hit by a car (which might be an accident or suicide attempt) and she is now in a coma. The book tells us about her life from childhood and about her family. You have parts from the past

This book is one that was recommended to me, and one that ordinarily I may not have picked up from the bookshelves. It is sold as a weepy 'chick -lit' kind of book, and one that demands that you have the Kleenex on hand. It was a heart wrenching story, that's true, but written with sensitivity, beauty and unrelenting tragedy.Ultimately the novel is about a young woman, Alice Raikes, who, after a short and mysterious visit to her hometown in Scotland, returns to London only to step out into

I feel as though a cloud has been lifted, now that I've finished this book. That's not to say I didn't like it, but Maggie O'Farrell manages to create such an intense atmosphere, I felt almost exhausted reading it. I feel i am giving an unfair impression of this book. It's a mix of mystery, thriller, romance... and I cannot possibly assign it to a single genre. Alice, the central figure in this story, ends up in a coma after witnessing a mysterious incident when she goes to visit her family.

I made a huge mistake in choosing to read AFTER YOU'D GONE, by Maggie O'Farrell. I'm not a fan of family dramas and here we have not one, not two, but three generations of familial bickering. I was initially intrigued by the book description where Alice, the youngest of the generations, "witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately." I wanted to know what she saw. Unfortunately, we don't know what she saw even when she sees it. I read 165 pages before I

"Sliding between different levels of consciousness, Alice listens to the conversations around her, and begins sifting through recollections of her past, and of a recently curtailed love affair."Alice is in a coma for most of the book, and you learn about her and her family and life through her recollections and various conversations. Sometimes it's out of chronological order but it never feels confusing or irritating. I had a tear in my eye at the end of this book. What a fantastic debut novel