Lovely Bones

«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»

«Spare, beautiful and brutal prose . . . The Lovely Bones is compulsive enough to read in a single sitting, brilliantly intelligent, elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguing»

«Takes the stuff of terrible tragedy and transforms it into something hopeful and redemptive»

«[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»

«A chilling juxtaposition of innocence against evil»

«Sebold has given us a fantasy-fable of great authority, charm, and daring. She's a one-of-a-kind writer»