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Perhaps the reason The Lovely Bones has been such a hit in the US is something to do with the aftermath of public mourning after last year's terrorism, the reassurance and satisfaction of being able to hear the voice of the gone and to piece together the future after cataclysm. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it.' The book's 'bones', above all, cease to be those of Susie's never-found body, or the animal bones her creepy killer plays with to distract himself from other young girls instead they become 'lovely', being connections between loved ones 'that happened after I was gone. Time inevitably passes ('however haphazardly, everyone I'd known was growing up'), bringing its own patterns of healing and meaning. Not much is possible from heaven, though Susie makes occasional contact with those she misses.

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They are characters from an above-average TV movie inhabiting this new 'ground zero' - the sharp-witted sister, the distracted mother, the too-hurt father, the ethnic boy, the life-is-tough adolescent girl, the oddball murderer, the tipsy too-ebullient grandmother and the crumpled, touched-by-tragedy detective. It was still back when people believed things like that didn't happen.' Susie Salmon, whose bones are shut in an old safe and sunk in quicksand by her neighbour Mr Harvey, spends the book watching and narrating, from her perfect adolescent heaven, the tale of her loss and the rupture her murder brings about in the lives of her family, her killer and her friends.

'I was 14 when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. 'My name was Salmon, like the fish, first name Susie,' it disarmingly begins. In comparison, they said, I was lucky.' The Lovely Bones, with its posthumous narrator telling the story of her brutal rape and murder and their aftermath, has been a massive seller in the US, garnering comparisons with Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. a girl had been murdered and dismembered. This novel, Sebold's first, was clearly born from her own horrific rape experience as a teenager, detailed in her memoir Lucky (1999), whose first paragraph reads: 'In the tunnel where I was raped. But Susie the ghost has gained a kind of sweetness, an ineffable insight and wisdom into the hurly-burly of human affairs, and sees what the Вliving cannot вЂ“ that everything will kind of be OK in the end.The dead 14-year-old heroine of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones is stranded in a much less supple, much more primitive and chronological parenthesis. Susie's spirit visits her family and sees how the marriage of her parents has been all but destroyed. Then she has chilling visions of her Вmurderer slumped in his bath, brooding and gloating over his horrendous crime. Her spirit lives on, running desperately through the streets after the initial Вassault, Вunable at first to grasp that she is dead, like Patrick Swayze in Ghost. Saoirse Ronan plays Susie Salmon, a teenage girl in the 1970s who is murdered by a local creepo, played by Stanley Tucci. It's certainly a startling story: a bold mix of horrible and sickly-sweet in a ratio of one to eight. Or maybe the movie believes in hell вЂ“ but can't quite bring itself to say so.)

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(And the serial killer? When he dies? Well, I guess he gets to go to a different, less nice meadow.

And then, once the living have got closure, she becomes united with the other victims, skipping hand in hand through a wonderful heaven which looks like a gorgeous meadow. It is a soothing, pseudo-redemptive fantasy which imagines that the teenage victim of a serial killer lives on, looking caringly over the lives left behind, in a weird but lovely-looking limbo, while the nearest and dearest can't get over the death. ВInstead of a compelling nightmare, he has created a bland, girly-sparkly dream. Now, with his defanged adaptation of the Alice Sebold bestseller The Lovely Bones вЂ“ which softens and omits its nastier Вelements вЂ“ it is as if Jackson has taken the spirit of Heavenly Creatures and turned it inside out, or upside down. P eter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, from 1994, was about two young girls who become psychologically driven to commit murder, and who take refuge in an elaborate fantasy world.