After You'd Gone
by Maggie O'Farrell
I really enjoyed this book. It's one I picked up at random at Bookstop a few months ago and I would recommend it to anyone who asks.
The novel is well written – very poetic and engaging. The narrations jumps around chronologically, covers multiple points of view, and occasionally changes from 1st to 3rd person, but I didn't have any trouble following it as I have with other novels written in a similar fashion.
It tells the story of Alice Raike through a troubled relationship with her mother, meeting the love of her life, and the struggle of the desire to die vs. the will to live as she lies in a coma after an apparent suicide attempt.
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