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The daughter of an Australian father and a German mother, Rachel Seiffert was born in Oxford and lives in London. She is the author the Booker-shortlisted novel The Dark Room and an acclaimed collection of short stories, Field Study. She was named one of Granta's 'Best of Young British' and one of 25 women writers to watch in the 'Orange Futures' promotion.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 <i>Afterwards</i> is a coiling suspense driven more by psychology than circumstance
New York Times
<i>[Afterwards</i>] is about invisible borders, the hard-held Irish border, the border between lovers, between generations, between past and present. It is a fine and profound work
Irish Times
Seiffert returns to many of the themes of her first novel, <i>The Dark Room</i>: guilt, grief, memory and forgetting. But <i>Afterwards</i> also asks the questions about how much people can really know about the people they love
Independent
Superb...the drama is balanced and the tension sustained...masterful
Financial Times
Readers who wonder why... Martin Amis and... Kiran Desai seem to flinch from writing about their own times should study Ms Seiffert
Economist
Rachel Seiffert is the poet and spokeswoman of those who find themselves on the wrong side of history...powerful, almost unbearably intense and wonderfully written
The Times
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.
To love someone, need you know everything about them?
When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship.
When Alice's widowed grandfather begins to tell Joseph about his RAF experiences in 1950s Kenya, something still raw is tapped in Joseph;