After Story

Jasmine, an ambitious Indigenous lawyer, invites her mother, Della, at the last minute to a literary tour of Britain.

[1] The structure of the novel covers each day of the on a tour of England's most revered literary sites shown from the perspective of Della, then Jasmine.

Della is generally unimpressed but untroubled by the pretensions of the group, and easily makes connections with various members, who are drawn to her unaffected and curious temperament.

As Della and Jasmine learn about the personal lives of authors like Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Virginia Woolf and Thomas Hardy, they each reflect on how the impact of Brittany's murder unfolded - the blame that was cast and the estrangement of relationships that followed, as well as the blame.

On the novel's release The Guardian (Australia) said that After Story asked "smouldering questions are leavened by characters who are funny, complex, and real.