by Maggie O'Farrell · Ambo|Anthos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789047202769
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«Voorbij de liefde» is the contemporary literary novel by Maggie O'Farrell, published by Ambo|Anthos in paperback (338 pages, in Dutch).
Alice Raikes boards the train from London to Edinburgh to see her sisters; that same night she lies in a coma in a London hospital after an accident that may not have been accidental. As her family gathers by her bedside, old tensions surface and Alice's memories bring back her youth and the great love she lost.
After You'd Gone, the original novel on which this edition is based, was published in 2000; the Dutch translation is by Anneke Bok.
Suitable for book clubs and for readers of contemporary literary fiction with an interest in memory and family relationships.
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.
