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The Lovely Bones
- Author
- Alice Sebold
- Narrator
- Alyssa Bresnahan
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 1 January 2010
- Run Time
- 11 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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 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 . . .
An astonishing novel about life and death, memory and forgetting, and finding light in the darkest places.
Alice Sebold's book inspired the Peter Jackson film, starring Susan Sarandon and Saoirse Ronan.
'Moving and compelling . . . I sat down in the morning to read the first couple of pages; five hours later, I was still there, book in hand, transfixed' – Maggie O'Farrell (author of The Marriage Portrait), Sunday Telegraph
Critics Review
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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, transfixed
Sunday Telegraph
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Spare, beautiful and brutal prose . . . The Lovely Bones is compulsive enough to read in a single sitting, brilliantly intelligent, elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguing
The Times
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Takes the stuff of terrible tragedy and transforms it into something hopeful and redemptive
Daily Mail
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[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 turned
Los Angeles Times
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A chilling juxtaposition of innocence against evil
New Statesman
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Sebold has given us a fantasy-fable of great authority, charm, and daring. She's a one-of-a-kind writer
Jonathan Franzen
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Details
- Author
- Alice Sebold
- Narrator
- Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duration
- 11 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 January 2010
- ISBN
- 9780230747845
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss
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 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 . . .An astonishing novel about life and death, memory and forgetting, and finding light in the darkest places.Alice Sebold's book inspired the Peter Jackson film, starring Susan Sarandon and Saoirse Ronan.'Moving and compelling . . . I sat down in the morning to read the first couple of pages; five hours later, I was still there, book in hand, transfixed' – Maggie O'Farrell (author of The Marriage Portrait), Sunday Telegraph
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