Why did I love this book?
This story tapped into my emotions and gave me all the feels of dread, despair, frustration, and fear the storyline of a child going missing could bring. It’s a storyline that would be every parent’s nightmare. The way the writer connects the emotions for me made me live the raw pivotal moments during the search for a child and the raw feelings I'd imagine someone with a missing child would feel. As a writer, it helped me understand that language used is all-important when setting a scene, and to think more as a writer about how the reader feels when a story is unfolding.
9 authors picked The Lovely Bones as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson.
With an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles.
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…