The Lovely Bones

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. 'Spare, beautiful and brutal prose ..."The Lovely Bones" is compulsive enough to read in a single sitting, brilliantly intelligent, elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguing.' - "The Times". '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".

ISBN 0330485385   Pages 256 ISBN13 9780330485388 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 220 Publisher Pan Macmillan   Published in London Imprint Picador   Previous ISBN 9780330413169 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 197 Publication date 06 Jun 2003   Width (mm) 130 Library of Congress PS3619   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 813.6   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

'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.'

it is so heart felt. you really identify with the characters, its 'its a wonderful life ' in book form - gary summerfield

It is written sensitively, with humour and with such depth that you forget the tragedy that struck the victim who remains positive throughout her story. It is easy reading, uncomplicated language but a difficult subject. You fly with this 'angel' as she watches over her family who are all affected by the circumstances they have to survive. You feel the love that she can no longer express. A truly wonderful read. - Maxine Barnett



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