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Afterwards

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099461777

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 234g

  • RRP: £9.99

Afterwards

To love someone, need you know everything about them?

When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship. Both are still young and hopeful of each other, but each brings with them an emotional burden. Alice's family is full of absences and Joseph harbours an unspeakable secret from his time in the army in Northern Ireland.

When Alice's widowed grandfather begins to tell Joseph about his RAF experiences in 1950s Kenya, something still raw is tapped in Joseph; his reaction to the older man's unburdening of guilt is both unexpected and devastating for them all.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099461777

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 234g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Masterful, delightfully controlled prose...This highly engaging novel continues to reveal itself long after it is read

    Sunday Telegraph

  • Carefully unsentimental...remarkable...we are given the complicated substance of unadorned lives

    Sunday Times

  • Compelling... A daring work, sure to gain her greater recognition..the portrait of the ex-soldier Joseph is as fine a depiction of a man in crisis as you will read

    Daily Telegraph

  • A remarkable feat... precise and searing... One of the most intelligent and ethical writers of her generation

    Literary Review

  • Elegant... Authentic... One of the significant accomplishments of Afterwards is a coiling suspense driven more by psychology than circumstance

    New York Times

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About the Author

Rachel Seiffert

The daughter of an Australian father and a German mother, Rachel Seiffert was born in Oxford and later moved to London. Her novel The Dark Room was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has also written an acclaimed collection of short stories, Field Study.

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