Maggie O"Farrell"s groundbreaking debut: a stunning, best-selling story 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 the family"s heart.