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After You'd Gone (English Edition) par [Maggie O'Farrell]

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AFTER YOU'D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O'Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love and grief.

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.

AFTER YOU'D GONE follows Alice's mental journey through her own past, after a traffic accident has left her in a coma. A love story that is also a story of absence, and of how our choices can reverberate through the generations, it slowly draws us closer to a dark secret at a family's heart.

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Nombre de pages de l'édition imprimée

386 pages
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Anglais
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Tinder Press
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12 novembre 2009
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Like a pointillist painting, this fine debut is, from one perspective, formless--short vignettes, told from multiple points of view and in multiple voices, that are somewhat puzzling on their own and apparently have no connection to each other. Ultimately, however, these elements merge into a coherent and moving portrait of a young woman's journey toward a life-threatening crisis. In London, one cold day in late fall, Alice Raikes impulsively boards a train home to Scotland. Shortly after joining her two sisters in the Edinburgh train station, she sees something "odd and unexpected and sickening" in the station's restroom that causes her immediately to flee back to London. Later that evening, while walking to the grocery store, Alice broods over what she has seen, then abruptly steps into oncoming traffic. As she lies comatose in her hospital bed, a swirl of voices and images gradually reveals her past--her parents, especially her mother, Ann; her beloved grandmother, Elspeth; her two sisters, so unlike her, both physically and temperamentally; and John Friedman, whom she loved and lost--and hints at her precarious future. The unnamed spectacle of the opening washroom scene resurfaces in Alice's semiconscious haze, and its eventual elucidation comes as less of a shock than a confirmation of all we have learned about her tumultuous existence. Sharply observed details of everyday life and language, original and telling figures of speech and deftly handled plot twists reach a moving climax, while subtly raising the question of whether the objects of Alice's affection--and the sources of her agony--were worth enduring. Foreign rights sold in seven countries.

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Revue de presse

'An effortless read... A compulsively readable and accomplished first novel' (Lesley Glaister, Independent on Sunday)

'Such an accomplished performance... A memorable debut' (Shena MacKay, Telegraph)

'Grips the reader from its first, dramatic pages... Kept me up half the night, unable to put it down' (Mail on Sunday)

'A writer of rare insight and intellect with a feel for language that renders her love story both tender and tragic' (Financial Times)

'Dazzlingly good... When I finished it, I'm not embarrassed to say, I wept' (Big Issue)

'Deeply moving... O'Farrell textures the plot brilliantly, wrapping the bare bones in a rich flesh' (Times Metro) --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition kindle_edition.

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'Beautifully contstructed... unashamedly passionate' Guardian

Alice Raikes boards a train at King's Cross to vsit her sisters in Scotland. Hours later, she steps into the traffic on a busy London road and is taken to hospital in a coma.

Who or what did she see in Edinburgh that made her return so suddenly? Was the accident a suicide attempt? And what exactly do her family, waiting at her bedside, have to hide? Sliding between different levels of consciusness, Alice begins to listen to the conversations around her, and begins sifting through recollections of her past, and of a recently curtailed love affair.

'Superb... deeply moving' The Times

'Had me so gripped I had to feign illness in order to devote myself to it entirely' Esther Freud

'This tens, involving and disturbing read... kept me up half the night, unable to put it down' Mail on Sunday

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From Library Journal

It is hard to believe that such an assured work comes from a first novelist. Starting in London with a young woman stepping off a curb in front of an oncoming car, O'Farrell gradually lays bare the harrowing realization that prompted the suicide attempt. On one level, this is a love story; on another it is an intergenerational tale of three women (grandmother Elspeth, mother Ann, and Alice, the victim). But to describe it as such sounds platitudinous, which it is definitely not. With smooth prose, O'Farrell moves seamlessly among the victim's family and friends and back and forth in time in seemingly random fashion, slowly revealing her characters' pasts and stunningly bringing the story back to the present. Despite its premise, this is not a depressing book. Published originally in the UK to good reviews, it should appeal to fans of Mary Gordon and Margaret Atwood, though it will draw a more popular audience than the latter.DFrancine Fialkoff, "Library Journal"
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition kindle_edition.

Biographie de l'auteur

Maggie O'Farrell, FRSOL, is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. She is also the author of WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO, a novel for children. She lives in Edinburgh. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition kindle_edition.

About the author

Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. She has worked as a journalist in Hong Kong and as Deputy Literary Editor for the Independent. She is now a freelance writer for a variety of British magazines and newspapers. She lives in the United Kingdom. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition kindle_edition.

Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2001

O'Farrell has written a deeply elusive book, one made more mysterious, somehow, by her wonderful sense of detail. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition kindle_edition.

Baltimore Sun

...a memorable debut and a headily promising one...a fine novel...a work of depth. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition kindle_edition.

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A young woman named Alice Raikes boards a train to Scotland to visit her family. But when she arrives, she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London that very minute. Only a few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt.

With Alice's life hanging in the balance, her family gathers at her bedside. As they wait, argue, and remember, long-buried tensions rise to the surface. The more they talk, the more, it seems, they conceal from each other. Alice, meanwhile, sliding between different levels of consciousness, recalls her past and a recent love affair. Skipping around in time, knitting together the different points of view with astonishing dexterity and beautiful prose, Maggie O'Farrell has created a story of love and family relationships that is reminiscent of the very best of Edna O'Brien and Mary Gordon. With one of the most heart-stopping openings in modern fiction, After You'd Gone is a work of extraordinary psychological depth and impressive maturity. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition kindle_edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0036AS07Q
Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Tinder Press; New e. édition (12 novembre 2009)
Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais
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Nathou

A very very very good book

Commenté en France le 26 janvier 2009

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S'il pouvait y avoir plus de 5 étoiles, j'en donnerais encore pour After You'd Gone. Attention, ce livre est un livre "douloureux", triste, mais très beau, très bien ficelé, très bien écrit: il hypnotise, hante le lecteur et donne envie de lire les autres livres de cette auteur (que j'ai d'ailleurs lus-je n'ai pas été déçue). Alors que le personnage principal tombe dans le comma après un accident de voiture, l'auteur nous distille des indices pour comprendre ce qui a conduit à cet accident par des successions de flashbacks, souvent écrits avec des points de vue différents. Petit à petit, l'histoire prend forme, et le lecteur comprend, analyse, ressent le goût amer de la vie quotidienne à travers le vécu des personnages. On embrasse plusieurs générations, on se lie à une famille avec ses secrets et ses non-dits, mais surtout, on ne décroche pas de l'histoire d'amour douce-amer, belle et tragique, qui hante le livre tel un fantôme, et qui pousse le lecteur à tourner les pages, pas trop vite quand même, car ce livre se savoure, et se relit...

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K. Fleetwood

O'Farrell's best yet

Commenté en France le 1 septembre 2010

I absolutely love anything Maggie O'Farrell writes. I started with The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, but frankly, each O'Farrell novel I read seems to get better than the last (if that's possible). Her characterization is phenomenal. Her plot lines are incredibly interesting. And her word choice is the best part altogether. I think you could just open an O'Farrell book, read a line at random, and have learned a little something about writing novels. Great stuff. After You'd Gone is no exception. Great story on dealing with loss. The flashbacks are so interesting. The love story woven into the novel is really just absolutely beautiful. I think it would be impossible not to like this novel.

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Amy.

Not an enjoyable read.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 28 août 2018

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Ive read a couple of her books and thought this sounded a good storyline. Two things ruined it for me..I am being objective, other readers may feel differently. Firstly I appreciate some writers hop about very successfully between two or more threads of the story....which can often add to the intrigue and I am comfortable with that. However in this book the author....for my taste....changes the scenery far too frequently. It makes it annoyingly impossible to get one's teeth into things. This is compounded by her decision to write about the main character in both the first person and third person alternately. I was very disappointed as it could have been an entertaining read. Instead it was rather cumbersome. The second blight on the book was the unnecessary use...so prevalent these days of the f-word. Talented writers mar their stories so often with this and other coarse and offensive words that one wonders if they are instructed by their publishers or agents to cram in as many as possible. Sadly this was the final straw for me and I gave the book away without finishing it. If foul language is something you are happy with and you are gymnastic enough to untangle the knotty style of writing...good for you. For me an otherwise excellent book was ruined.

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L S

What a lot of nonsense

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 7 février 2019

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I hated this book. Completely unrealistic. The changes in scene and time, sometimes 3 times in a single page, added nothing to the story. A slow reveal is great but this was ridiculous. I did manage to follow the story but, about half way through, I began to wonder if it actually mattered. I got to the point where I started to question why I actually even read. I do not understand the 5 star reviews at all. This is on no level an enjoyable or well written book. The biggest low was at the crematorium. In the real world (where this book was supposedly set) it takes 1-3 hours to cremate a body and around 7-10 days to get the ashes back. Ridiculous.

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SusannahB

Maggie O'Farrell's First and Possibly Best Novel

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 30 mars 2022

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Desperately missing her lover John, Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Edinburgh to visit her sisters, but no sooner has she arrived than she sees something traumatising which makes her bolt back to London. In London, Alice, still in a state of shock, steps out into road and, as a result, ends up in a coma in hospital. Whilst Alice hovers between life and death, we learn about her past life, her parents' lives, her meeting the love of her life and of the difficulties encountered between her and John and his Jewish heritage. But what did Alice see in Edinburgh that had such a devastating effect on her? And was her stepping into the traffic of a busy London road an accident or an attempt at suicide?

An involving and moving story of loss and love - both familial love and passionate love - and one in which the author also looks at dysfunctional families and at religious beliefs and of the effect these beliefs can have on those who are believers and non-believers. Moving continually backwards and forwards in time, this is a novel which keeps the reader 'on their toes', but one which kept me engaged throughout and although this is Maggie O'Farrell's first novel, I think it's possibly her best (although I ought to add here that I haven't yet read 'Hamnet').

5 Stars.

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5 stars

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 30 septembre 2018

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I have read this book twice and I rarely reread books. I may possibly read again in the future.

Whenever someone asks the 'What's your favourite book?' question, this book is always within my answer, as like most bookworms that question is impossible to answer with a single book.

I absolutely adored this book, both of the times that I've read it. I love the way it jumps between the past and present and how the story unfolds.

I have read and loved quite a few of Maggie's other books over the years now too.

I have recommended this book to countless people, as in my opinion its a must read.

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Janie U

Sensitive, respectful, beautiful and empathetic

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 23 mars 2022

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I've read several Maggie O'Farrell books and enjoyed them all. I recently came across this one written in 2000 and was interested in the subject matter. The idea of being able to hear your surroundings whilst in a coma has been explored in other novels and I am curious to see what this clever novelist can do with the theme.
There are 372 pages split into small, unnumbered chapters. The book has a prologue and is divided into 3 parts.
The narrative jumps around in time. This makes the reader concentrate on the story as you need to be sure about what part of Alice's story is being revealed. Whilst this ensures engagement from the start, I found that I quickly relaxed into the flow of the story and accepted each change without even thinking about it. The planning of the chronology is amazing, the story gradually unfolds at the various times, slowly revealing details with perfect timing as if putting pieces into a jigsaw.
MO plays with the tenses, swapping from first person to third person to emphasise the more emotional sections. It is genuinely surprising how subtle yet effective this technique is - swapping the focus from being inside Alice's head to just observing yet being at the same scene - watching Alice's reactions rather than being a part of them.
Reading this book I am able to block out everything around and stayed up for hours one night to try to finish it. At the start I wasn't sure what the book was going to be about and loved how the author seemed to gently manipulate me into caring about all of these characters. I wanted to know more and more about them, then felt some grief when I got to the end of the book.
There are some huge stories in the plot which I wasn't expecting but they are cleverly balanced with the more mundane detail of life.
It's been a while since I read a book by this author and I've enjoyed this one so much that I'm going to look for some more.
Of course, this author handled the situation of a person in a coma sensitively. She gave Alice respect, beauty and empathy as I had hoped.

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