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After you'd gone

Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt. Alice's family gathers at her bedside and as they wait, argue, and remember, long-buried tensions emerge. The more they talk, the more they seem to conceal. Alice, meanwhile, slides between varying levels of consciousness, recalling her past and a love affair that recently ended. A riveting story that skips through time and interweaves multiple points of view, After You'd Gone is a novel of stunning psychological depth and marks the debut of a major literary talent.

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  • "After you'd gone"@he
  • "After you'd gone"

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  • "Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt. Alice's family gathers at her bedside and as they wait, argue, and remember, long-buried tensions emerge. The more they talk, the more they seem to conceal. Alice, meanwhile, slides between varying levels of consciousness, recalling her past and a love affair that recently ended. A riveting story that skips through time and interweaves multiple points of view, After You'd Gone is a novel of stunning psychological depth and marks the debut of a major literary talent."@en
  • "Alice Raikes gets on a train at King's Cross to visit her sisters in Edinburgh. Hours later, she walks into traffic on a busy London street and is taken to hospital in a coma. What happened in Scotland to make her return so suddenly, and was it traumatic enough to cause her to try commiting suicide? What do her family members have to hide? As Alice listens to the conversations around her hospital bed, she begins sifting through memories of her past and a recent love affair."@en
  • "Alice Raikes remembers a tragic love affair as she lies in a coma. Meanwhile, Alice's family gathers at her bedside."
  • "Als een jonge vrouw in Londen na een ongeluk in coma ligt, komen ingrijpende herinneringen bij haar boven."
  • "Alice Raikes boards a train at King's Cross to visit her sisters in Scotland. Hours later, she steps into 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 to London 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 consciousness, Alice listens to the conversations around her, and begins sifting through recollections of her past and a recently curtailed love affair."@en
  • "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."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Translations"
  • "Historie miłosne irlandzkie w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en

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  • "Kiedy odszedłeś"@pl
  • "Kiedy odszedłeś"
  • "Ni zou yi hou"
  • "Depois de tu partires"
  • "After you'd gone"
  • "After you'd gone"@en
  • "Seit du fort bist"
  • "Voorbij de liefde"
  • "你走以后 = After you'd gone"
  • "Seit du fort bist Roman"
  • "你走以后"
  • "Hotan ephyges- : mythistorēma"
  • "After You'd Gone"@en
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Kur ti ike : roman"
  • "Kada si otišao"
  • "Ni zou yi hou = After you'd gone"
  • "Quand tu es parti"
  • "After you'd gone : a novel"@en
  • "אחרי שעזבת"
  • "Kiedy Odszedles"
  • "Kad si otišao"
  • "Aḥare she-ʻazavt"

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