The Lovely Bones

b>With an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker./b>b>The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson./b>My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.In heaven, Susie Salmon can have whatever she wishes for - except what she most wants, which is to be back with the people she loved on earth. In the wake of her murder, Susie watches as her happy suburban family is torn apart by grief; as her friends grow up, fall in love, and do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But as Susie will come to realize, even in death, life is not quite out of reach . . . A luminous, astonishing novel about life and death, memory and forgetting, and finding light in the darkest places, Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones became an instant classic when it was first published. There are now over ten million copies in print. It inspired the film starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon and Saoirse Ronan.

About the author

Alice Sebold is the author of the bestselling novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, and the memoir Lucky. She lives in California.

Summary

A haunting and heartbreaking novel narrated from heaven as a young girl watches over her family and killer.

Report

Moving and compelling . . . It will put an imperceptible but stealthily insistent hold on you. I sat down in the morning to read the first couple of pages; five hours later, I was still there, book in hand, transfixed Maggie O'Farrell Sunday Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Alice Sebold, Sebold Alice
• Assisted by: Karen Thompson Walker (Introduction), Walker Karen Thompson (Introduction)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9781447275206
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-7520-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Picador Classic; Picador Classics; Picador Classic
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Coming of age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Mystery & Detective / General