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After You'd Gone

By: Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
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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, where a traffic accident leaves her in a coma. After You'd Gone follows Alice's mental journey into how she came to be this way, as she twists together threads of memory in a plot that grips from the outset.

It is a love story which is also a story of absence - we discover that Alice's lover, John, has been dead for a year by the time the book starts - and of parental legacies: how actions and choices can reverberate in following generations. Slowly, we are drawn closer to a dark secret at the family's heart, as Alice begins to wonder whether she will ever be whole again, or even survive.

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I’m wondering if I’d have enjoyed this book more if I’d read it instead of listened to it. It felt like the chapter breaks were often in the wrong places. I usually really enjoy books that skip between different times but this one felt really confusing at times. I often found myself wondering who a character was in the first half, making it hard to follow. The ending was also very sudden and left me feeling very unfulfilled.

Confusing at times which I have not experienced with this author

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I really enjoyed this book though it did take a while to get me interested. At first I found the narrator very annoying but I eventually got used to her. Then I found it difficult to put down. I didn't like the ending cutting off so abruptly so am hoping for a sequel.

An Intriguing Book.

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This book is impossible to put down. As per all Maggie’s novels, she has your emotions in the palm of her hand.

Page turner

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Awful, boring characters. Strange plot twists that came out of nowhere and really added nothing. O’Farrell gave voice to EVERY inner thought the characters experienced which became tedious. I loved Hamnet, The hand that first held mine, and the vanishing act of Esme Lennox, which were vastly superior and more enjoyable.

Not O’Farrell’s best by a long shot

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