After Eleanor is an intimate but never sentimental account of the days, weeks and ultimately years following Alison Haynes’ mother’s lonely death in England. After learning of her passing, Alison travelled to England to make funeral arrangements and in the process, began piecing together details of her mother’s seemingly unremarkable life. After Eleanor will resonate with many women who face the inevitability of losing their own mothers while in the full thrust of motherhood themselves.