I loved Alice Sebold’s “The Lovely Bones” when I read the novel a few years back. It’s a fascinating and moving glimpse at grief, narrated by a young girl who was murdered and who recounts how she watches over her family, and tries to bring her killer to justice.

Now, Peter “Lord of the Rings” Jackson has adapted the book into a movie, due out in December. The trailer was released while I was on vacation. It looks awfully good — and could well solidify the reputation of Mark Wahlberg (who plays the girl’s father).

Take a look.

As for the title, it comes from this passage in the book:

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life…