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 The
Lovely Bones became an instant classic when it was first published in 2002. There are now over
ten million copies in print. 'Compulsive enough to read in a single sitting brilliantly
intelligent elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguing' The Times 'Takes the stuff of
terrible tragedy and transforms it into something hopeful and redemptive' Daily Mail
