Lovely Bones

The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson. 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 people she loved on earth. In the wake of her murder; Susie watches as her happy suburban family is torn apart by grief; as her friends grow up; fall in love; and do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But as Susie will come to realize; even in death; life is not quite out of reach . . . A luminous; astonishing novel about life and death; memory and forgetting; and finding light in the darkest places; Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones became an instant classic when it was first published in 2002. It inspired the film starring Mark Wahlberg; Rachel Weisz; Susan Sarandon and Saoirse Ronan.