them bones, them bones... (Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold)

Member Name: PrincessAngharad

Product:	Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Date:	31/03/09 (47 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: a sad and beautiful book

Disadvantages: Murder and death

Genre:
This is a tricky one- i suppose its a romantic tragedy with a slight element of horror.

Author:
Alice Seabold, also the author of Lucky.

Publisher:
Picador

Year it was published:
2002

Price:
£7.99

Plot Summary:
This is the story about a girl, Susie Salmon, who is murdered and finds herself in a heaven of her own creation. From her Susie can watch her family and friends grow and learn to live life after her death. She can also watch the person who killed her and what they do with her body.

Recommendation:
This book sound sick and twisted but its actually beautiful and sad. It will make you evaluate the value you place on your own life and of those around you. Seabold deals with the issue of death senstivly and bravely talks about a possible afterlife. This book will suprise you, It was a no.1 bestseller and it truly deserves this title.

Summary: Well worth a read