After Thursday is a sequel to See You Thursday, where the reader first meets Marianne and Abe. In See You Thursday, Marianne is sixteen. Abe, a blind music teacher, boarding in her mother's house, has made a hit with Marianne, a lonely girl who is uncomfortable at the expensive girls' school she attends.

Marianne finds an unexpected friend in Abe and develops a crush on him.

See You Thursday was chosen one of the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults in 1983.

In 1989 Ure said she was working on a third story called Tomorrow Is Also a Day. Ure writes about a variety of themes, but she says "basically all my books are concerned with relationships—of people to themselves and of people to each other."