I found The Bines Of You by Debbie Howells an excellent read, I was engrossed from page one. I was thinking about The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, however although Rosie ends up in the same Predicament as Suzie (The Lovely Bones) their lives were very different while they were in "living Form". As Suzie got to peak into the lives of her warm & loving family Rosie on the other hand came from a twisted, abusive, delusional household, you can't help but feel as if she's not better off on the other side. Her mother likes to project an image of a successful, upperclass socialite with a lifestyle filled with opulence & perfection,which is nothing more than a grandeous cover from her home to her children & most of all, her husband, & not to mention her physical appearance which has seen more plastic surgery then a marathon episode of Nip & Tuck! The only way I can describe The Bones Of You would be if you could imagine you were walking into a beautiful garden with butterflies & thriving green vines & fragrant exotic flowers only to discover it's a landscape filled with the most deadly entities from it's toxic foliage to its most poisonous insects! Rosie has an unrelenting feeling of dread leading up toher death & a sinking feeling as if any minute she will step in to a mound of quicksand never to be seen again, which is well warranted. As she watches over her family especially her younger sister which she yearns to protect from her parents looming clenches she can only watch helplessly as her father is still redeemed as the smooth, cool operator only to rear his ugly head as a cold & calculating form of some Venus Flytrap & her mother as his dazzling yet forever incompetent Gardner!