The Lovely Bones

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By Alice Sebold

Susie Salmon is fourteen when a neighbour murders her on her way home across the cornfield. She narrates the novel from her own heaven, watching what happens next.

Her father is certain who did it and cannot prove it; her mother leaves; her sister grows up; and the man in the green house keeps his garden tidy. A novel about a family that has to go on living in the years after, told by the person who cannot.

First published 2002