I have read all Maggie O'Farrell's other books and thoroughly enjoyed them, but I think After You'd Gone, which I've just finished, was the best of the lot. It has stayed with me for days,and I'm finding it difficult to pick up another book although I have a pile 3 feet high waiting to be read!It is a book of such extraordinary depth and feeling. Alice, lying in a coma,slides between different levels of consciousness. She relives her troubled childhood and youth and her passion, longing and grief for her soulmate. Her parents,worried sick, have long buried issues to resolve. A truly wonderful read