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 6 December 1973.
From her place in heaven, Susie Salmon can have anything she wishes for — except the one thing she longs for most: to be back with the people she loved on earth. As she watches her once-happy suburban family unravel in grief, and her friends grow up, fall in love, and live the lives she never got to have, Susie slowly realises that even in death, life is not quite beyond 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 on its release in 2002. It inspired the celebrated film starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, and Saoirse Ronan.