The groundbreaking debut novel from the bestselling author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT: one of the most extraordinary love stories you’ll ever read.
*Over 480,000 copies sold*

This devastatingly skillful love story will break your heart!” Alice Winn
Gripping. Superbly moving” Ali Smith
Such a visceral, heartrending read about grief and love” Claire Waverley
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.
Remarkable. Luminous” Observer
Deeply moving” The Times
An amazing study of love and grief as it poses the wrenching question: What do you do with all the love you have for someone when they’re gone?” Glamour
What readers are saying
Moving, funny, life affirming and devastating all at once
I have never been so emotionally moved by a book!
Made my heart swell and break in turn. Beautifully written