![]() ![]() The rest of the book shuttles between the present tense, in which Alice lies in a coma with her family around her and the past, in which we learn of her family, her childhood, and her most significant relationship. Within hours she ends up in hospital, having stepped in front of oncoming traffic. At its beginning, having just arrived in Edinburgh to visit her family, Alice witnesses something reflected in a mirror which she wishes she had never seen, and which sends her reeling straight back to London. O’Farrell’s first novel, After You’d Gone (2000), was published to almost unanimous critical and popular acclaim. Well-crafted portraits of both individual lives and relationships (with lovers and with families), they have appealed to a wide cross-section of the book-buying public looking for an engaging read which probes more deeply than ‘chick lit’. Maggie O’Farrell’s novels question how the things we choose to hide can cause our lives to unravel as well as how we deal with loss, and how we can start to repair the damage. ![]()
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