by Maggie O'Farrell · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781472207449
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«After You'd Gone» is the contemporary novel by Maggie O'Farrell, published by Headline Book Publishing in paperback, in English.
Alice Raikes travels by train to Scotland, but what she witnesses there makes her return to London immediately. After an accident, Alice falls into a coma and her family gathers; buried tensions surface. The narrative alternates between time periods and points of view, revealing the love affair that marked Alice and the fragility of memory.
After You'd Gone is Maggie O'Farrell's first novel, originally published in 2000 and winner of the Betty Trask Award in 2001. This paperback edition was published in 2011.
The novel is suitable for readers of contemporary fiction and book clubs that value choral structures with time jumps.
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.
