Book description
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
