The Lovely Bones
01 January 2015Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson.
With an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles.
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,...
Details
01 January 2015336 pages
9781447275206Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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, transfixedMaggie O'Farrell, Sunday Telegraph
Spare, beautiful and brutal prose . . . The Lovely Bones is compulsive enough to read in a single sitting, brilliantly intelligent, elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguingThe Times
Takes the stuff of terrible tragedy and transforms it into something hopeful and redemptiveDaily Mail
[Sebold] has created a novel that is painfully fine and accomplished, one which readers will have their own difficulties relinquishing, long after the last page is turnedLos Angeles Times
