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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 bought this book because I loved Hamnet, but this is not really very good. It started off quite well but after halfway it lost credibility and didn't warrant 12 hours of listening.

Disappointing

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This is how storytelling should be, but for the most part isnt, but you carry on taking chances with books and get disapojnted time and time again and just when you are about to give up , when there are no more genres left to find a good story, something wonderful like this comes along.

I cried, a lot, it was intense the last couple of hours, but worth it.

only a fool would pass up this book, it has no genre, sometimes real life hits harder.

Absolutely Beautiful and Tragic

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Hugely enjoyed this novel by the great Maggie.
Crisscrossing back and forth in time we are drawn into a web, the evolution of a family through the years and the subtle nuances in life.
She is one of my favourite writers, and this narration is excellent.
The only thing to note is I found the beginning hard to get into, and a little frustrating. I suppose her usual technique of jumping around the timeline is hard to follow on audio, as the gaps between the parts are very slight. So hard to know if she has moved on.

Excellent performance, gripping novel

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This is one of the best novels I have listened to - the narrator is excellent and brings the story to life.

Excellent

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A very moving story of love and loss. Absolutely fantastic narration ! Found it difficult to press the pause button. Fully recommended!

A wonderful book. Amazing narration !

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