Summary

After You deals with the aftermath of the assisted suicide of a man named Will Traynor in the earlier novel Me Before You.

In Chapter 1, the narrator – whose identity is not immediately revealed – is working at an Irish-themed bar in an airport. As she prepares to close the bar for the night she discovers a man hiding in the men’s bathroom because he is scared of flying and cannot face the prospect of getting on his plane, even though he needs to attend an important meeting for his job. The narrator reassures him that there is nothing to be afraid of and that for many people flying is a daily activity. The man asks the narrator her name and she responds that it is Louisa: the narrator is Lou Clark, the protagonist from the first novel, Me Before You. Louisa convinces the man...