Related from heaven after a brutal rape, Susie watches her family grieve and disintegrate, watches her friends and indeed watches her killer and the sad detective working on her case. Over the years we live and cry with them for our wonderful narrator truly makes you feel all their pain and joys. In the end it is an uplifting book despite its subject matter, and above all it is a truly memorable book.
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My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer. This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet ... The Lovely Bones is a luminous and astonishing novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting - but, above all, about finding light in the darkest of places
The Lovely Bones features in the following genres: eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Fiction
The Lovely Bones is available in Paperback, Book
The Lovely Bones was written by Alice Sebold and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
The Lovely Bones has 336 pages
£13.49
