Books
by Alice Sebold
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Lucky |
A difficult book to recommend because it is about rape. Alice Sebold tells of the brutal university rape which transformed her innocent life. It tells of her struggle to come to terms with what happened to her, the effect on her relationship with family and friends and her determination to get her attacker convicted for the crime. It is a disturbing book but reveals the strength of the human spirit.
(Christine Miller - bwl 17 February 2003) |
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The Lovely Bones |
From her gazebo in a very un-celestial heaven, murdered teenager Susie Salmon watches and frets over her family and friends as they reel under the shock of her death. Can her parents' marriage survive? How will her sister and little brother cope? Will her friends learn to live without her? Underlying everything, will her killer ever be discovered and caught? Life, death, forgiveness, vengeance, memory and forgetting all are encompassed in this truly remarkable novel.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 19 June 2003) |
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