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Author: Joan Lingard

Genre: Women's Reads
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780749080549
Pages: 340
Rights: World English
Pub. Date: 2008-04-28

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Price: £7.99

Format: Paperback

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Set in Edinburgh, After You've Gone is a moving story about a woman torn between her husband and another man in 1920s society.

Willa is a polite and respectable young woman, trying to cope with the tedium of her life whilst her husband is away on a year-long cruise with the Navy. Living with a controlling mother-in-law only serves to fuel her sense of claustrophobia. Her only escape is to submerge herself in books, and at her local library she meets Richard, a charming and intelligent young writer who shares her passion for reading. As their relationship blossoms, it begins to change Willa's life. Despite her initial reluctance, she allows herself to enjoy the taste of a different existence, yet all the while struggling with the knowledge that Tommy's steady progress will eventually bring him back home...