The Lovely Bones
01 January 2010Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
A haunting and heartbreaking novel narrated from heaven as a young girl watches over her family and killer.
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, which is to be back with the...
Details
01 January 2010698 minutes
Alyssa Bresnahan
9780230747845Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
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
