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I know it's mainstream as good green ****, but in a sort of Douglas
Coupland Lite-tastic manner, try Alice Seebold's "The Lovely Bones".

 

darsy secured a place in history by writing:

Schmalzy. And it made me cry. Quite liked it, but if you have children you
may find it difficult to maintain a dry eye.

 

That's been on my to-be-read pile for about a year, still haven't got
around to it.

On a book tip, Louise Welsh still seems to be the darling of the
literary world, and The Cutting Room isn't too bad as a pulp read.

Oh, and Jonathan Coe's The Closed Circle has been Book At Bedtime
on Radio 4 this week, still available from the web site (my copy's
reserved at the library for when I can be arsed to go and get it)

 

darsy wrote:

Alice Seebold's "The Lovely Bones".

delicious read, given to me by a man who lost his son to leukemia
(?). What a read it must have been to him!

 

yeah, it's been on the shelves here for about the same time - worth a
read, if a little over-sentimental.

I'd not want to hear a book before I'd read it, but thanks anyway.