This book has been compared to Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, the most astounding bestseller of the early 21st century, according to critical consensus. Although they only have in common the outline: both here and there the soul of a young girl, having parted with her body, observes from the side the lives of loved ones. But in the case of the heroine of Gail Forman’s book, seventeen-year-old Mia, the situation is much more complicated. Fate presented her with a choice - either to return to life, or to leave forever for another world, following the people she loved most.