The Lovely Bones

I have just finished reading The Lovely Bones. This is the first piece of fiction I’ve read in aaaages. I bought it last week on sale and using a birthday book voucher, which meant I paid the princely sum of $4.50! I started it with a bit of hesitation though, knowing by its premise that there would be some unsavoury things described in the text. (For those who haven’t heard of this book, it is narrated by a young girl from heaven after her murder). It is definitely gripping – you do want to keep reading on, although the pace inevitably slipped towards the end, as time went on and the drama in the immediate aftermath of her death dissipated. The necessary suspension of disbelief with a dead narrator began to get stretched more and more as the plot thickened too – I didn’t really buy some of the later events. Recommended for others? Absolutely, if you pay only $4.50! And also if you feel like something a little bit different.

Adapting this book for the big screen is apparently one of the projects that our local man Peter Jackson has on the boil at the moment. I could really imagine him doing it, given what he did with Heavenly Creatures.