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