On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.

I'm opening this book up as a book ray(ie I don't want it back at the end of its travels). If you would like to join, please send me a PM with your name and country of where you live. Please also say if are not prepared to post internationally - otherwise I will assume that you can.(I'll try to order the list so that postage costs are kept to a minimum).

This is a fairly light book. Even with adequate packaging, it should cost about 90p to send domestically in the UK and about £1.20 to send economy mail overseas.

Some brief "rules"
* Journal the book when you receive it.
* PM the next person on the list for their address when you receive it so as to try to avoid hold-ups later on.
* If you don't hear from the next participant within a few days, PM them again. If after a few more days you still haven't heard from them, PM me to let me know, and move on to the next person on the list.
* Read (and hopefully enjoy!) Don't feel pressurised to read it in a rush (and remember that life gets in the way sometimes for all of us!) but if you need to keep hold of the book for longer than say six weeks or a couple of months, please journal to let us know.
* Journal again when you've read it to let us know what you think of it!
* Surface/economy mail is fine, but please make a note in a journal entry so the person you're sending to has a rough idea of when to expect it.

Participants (in order)

VauxhallCrosser (UK)
bluejazzyfish (UK)
soffitta1 (UK)

The last person on the list gets to decide what to do with the book next.

This book has now finished it's bookring travels and is off on the next phase of it's life

RELEASE NOTES:

Kicking off this book ray by sending it out to a fellow bookcrosser.

Arrived today, I'll read it once I have finished my current read, thanks Rivercassini.

Read it, enjoyed it, cried a little, which was not so good since I was on the bus at the time. About to PM the next potential recipient to find out where I'm sending it. I ws worried at one point that some loose ends weren't going to be tidied up, but they were, so I wasn't disappointed.

I have just received the book in the post- thank you Vauxhallcrosser. Next on my reading list- so it shouldn't take me long to finish it.

I really enjoyed this book-- i had to stop myself for crying quite a few times.

Will post to Soffitta1 in the morning.

Thank you for letting me take part in this ring.

Just got this through the post! Thank you bluejazzyfish!

Really got into this book - read it on the way to and from Alnwick Castle, but luckily read the last couple of chapters in my room, as got a wee bit emotional.

A hard to define book, hard to read at times because of the subject matter, yet uplifting at other times.

Leaving this in the staffroom, if not picked up will take it into Edinburgh.

Actually this is going to be released in Glasgow at the 13th Note (tried to change the release notes, but it didn't work!)