The Lovely Bones

My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on 6 December 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 realise, even in death, life is not quite out of reach ...

'Spare, beautiful and brutal prose ... brilliantly intelligent, elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguing.' -- The Times
'Moving and compelling ... It will put an imperceptible but stealthily insistent hold on you.' -- The Sunday Telegraph

Alice Sebold is the author of the bestselling novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, and the memoir Lucky. She lives in California with her husband, the writer Glen David Gold. As far back as she can remember, Alyssa Bresnahan – dynamic dancer, actor, narrator – has been involved in performing. As a child, she performed in New York street theatre with her parents. She toured Europe in productions of Greek drama. In the United States, she has appeared as Stella in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and as Nina in Chekhov’s The Seagull. At The New York Stage and Film Festival, she had the starring role in The Clearing.

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