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The Lovely Bones Book

Alice Sebolds' best-selling novel The Lovely Bones is a haunting and heart-wrenching tale about 14-year-old Susie Salmon who's raped and murdered on the way back from school. The novel is told from a beautiful, almost poetic, heaven where Susie watches over her family and friends as they come to terms with her death, as well as looking down on her murderer and the officer working on her case. Clinging onto the world she's left behind and with her family falling apart with grief, The Lovely bones is an in-depth look into loss, mourning and faith. Read More

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  • Amazon

    On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.

    As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue".

    The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow".

    Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com

  • ASDA

    Susie Salmon looks down from a heaven which looks a lot like her school playground. There are counsellors to help newcomers adjust and friends to room with. Everything she wants appears as soon as she thinks of it - except the thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on Earth.

  • 0330485377
  • 9780330485371
  • Alice Sebold
  • 23 August 2002
  • Picador
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 336
  • New edition
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