The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

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
Alice Sebold is the author of the bestselling novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, and the memoir Lucky. She lives in California.
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ISBN 13 9780330466615
ISBN 10 0330466615
Title The Lovely Bones
Author Alice Sebold
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 2009-09-04
Number of pages 336
Prizes Winner of National Book Awards Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year 2004 (UK), Winner of Specsavers Platinum Bestseller Award 2017 (UK)
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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