More than eight million copies sold around the world – now a film by Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings, Heavenly Creatures)
"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
It's a story about a teenage girl named Suzie who is lured into an underground hiding place and is killed. It is written through Suzie's eyes as she is in heaven watching down on her family and friends. She watches her family from above grieving and trying to find answers. She sees her friends creating rumours of how she disappeared and her killer trying to cover up the crime. I read this book after watching the movie and it is just as good. I enjoyed this book and would read it again. Reviewed by 01cg.
Guest, 10/09/2014
