Another Wonderfully Written Book by Lennox

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	• After You'd Gone Maggie O'Farrell Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 45 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Another Wonderfully Written Book by Lennox

When I finishing The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, I felt compelled to read After You'd Gone. Maggie O'Farrell is an incredible writer who is able to capture human emotion in a magnificent and poignant manner. What I really liked about this book is the way in which O'Farrell dealt with complex issues without over dramatizing them. The book packs a soft punch of wisdom regarding love, betrayal, grief and forgiveness

Beautiful, Touching , true literature

Love in all its forms: family love, lover's love, friend's love. Mix it up with loss, grief,and hatred turned to love and you have another masterpiece by the most exciting English author in the past eight years. The prose has won awards, but the real test of a genius is the emotion and learning that happens in the heart of the reader. Don't forget to tell your friends about this book after you read it. Use it for a book club group.

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Depressing

After you'd gone, is not a book to read if you are looking for a feel good book. I really enjoyed the way that the author wrote this book. Even though she skipped from character to character it was very easy to follow. This book is a tear jerker. The only thing I did not truly care for in the book was the ending. I think the ending should have had more to it.

It all fit together so satisfyingly!!!

Little mysteries continually slipped in front of the reader, you must keep reading to find out. The biggest and best being, What could a person see in 4 minutes inside a bathroom that would make them suicidal?

And the best part...it all works out so tightly! Everything is plausible and satisfying, even if it isn't happy.

If you love your husband or wife, you will feel intense empathy for this love and magnificent grief.

Sometimes you meet the author through her prose, and you aren't impressed. Anyone can wax lovely about their fine feelings, and ply you with artistic details that don't move the story forward.

I did not feel this author, because her story was so damn good all I felt were the people she'd made and the world she'd set them in. If she wants to indulge in two pages of small details of lover's lives, by god she's earned it.

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Found a new author to keep up with!

Being an avid reader I'm always looking for a new author, and after reading Maggie O'Farrell's After You'd Gone, I was pleased that I'd managed to find another new interesting author to add to my "list".

I really enjoyed the flow of the story, the pace of the storyline and the character development. It made it very easy to get into the book and dig in. In addition, the writing was top-notch, and had me hooked from Chapter One, which I don't say often. I found myself really caring for the main character and then wondering what had happened to her to bring us to her present situation.

The ending was the perfect ribbon placed on top of the package. I was very happy with it and felt it did the story justice. I would definitely recommend this book to a friend and am planning on reading My Lover's Lover.

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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.

"It's the depiction of . . . deceptively small moments that is O'Farrell's winning gift. . . . Her absorbing characters gracefully circle one another 'round the room like moths at the light bulb,' grazing their wings against life's raw heat instead of being consumed by it." (The New York Times Book Review)

"After You'd Gone is beautifully written contemporary fiction." (Edna O'Brien, The Sunday Times)

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