Alice Raikes boards a train at King's Cross to visit her family in Scotland. Hours later, she is lying in a coma at a London hospital, after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt.
With her life hanging in the balance, Alice's family gather at her bedside. As they wait, argue and remember, long-buried tensions rise to the surface. The more they talk, the more, it seems, they conceal from one another.
Alice, meanwhile, sliding between different levels of consciousness, begins sifting through recollections of her past and of a recently curtailed love affair.
'After You'd Gone' is an examination of love, grief and deception, and how the actions and choices of one generation can reverberate in the next. It is a work of enormous strength and psychological depth, and marks the debut of a major literary talent.
