After You'd Gone

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'