Lovely Bones, is published in this country. It is, as it were, the real thing. Her description of being brutally beaten up and raped in a park near her college campus when she was 18 and still a virgin is devastating and made all the more powerful by her total lack of self-pity and her insights into both her own responses to her ordeal and those of the people around her. It's beautifully written too, lucid and plucky. Alice Sebold reads from Lucky and The Lovely Bones, just out in paperback.
