I can see why The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold was the gigantic hit that it was: it captures the essence of the seventies when fears of missing/murdered children began to enter the zeitgeist. The ghost theme was worn out by the time this book was published, but Sebold largely pulls it off- and it is necessary for the story. The ghost entering the friend part and the sex scene was excessive; this is particularly the case in a novel about sexual violence. But I did enjoy that-no-real solution to Susie’s murder – people learn to live with her passing as a memory and a presence.
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