by Maggie O'Farrell · Headline Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780755330720
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«After You'd Gone» is the psychological novel by Maggie O'Farrell, published by Headline Publishing Group in paperback (384 pages, in English).
After an accident leaves her in a coma, Alice reconstructs her past in a mental journey: the day when, traveling by train to Scotland, something seen in a mirror at Waverley station made her return to London. A story of love and absence where decisions resonate across several generations until a dark family secret.
20/20 edition: commemorates the 20th anniversary of Headline Vision and its cover includes a quote from Esther Freud ('Guardian Books of the Year').
For readers of literature and fiction who enjoy stories of love, memory and family secrets.
Maggie O'Farrell FRSL is an Irish-British novelist. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. O'Farrell co-adapted the book for the screen with Chloé Zhao in 2025, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on the film.
