"Diving Through Clouds" by Nicola Lindsay

From Booklist
Like Alice Sebold's best-seller, The Lovely Bones (2002), Lindsay's novel is set in heaven, and like Sebold, Lindsay makes the afterlife believable and robust, though her book lacks the dark contours and subject matter of Sebold's. Instead, it is touching, humorous, and ultimately sweet. Fiftysomething cancer patient Kate Fitzgerald lies in a hospital bed in contemporary Ireland, hovering in a limbo in which she can flit through the lives of those she has touched, listening and watching as the messiness of daily living unravels, and trying to look back objectively at the triumphs and the mistakes of her own life. She learns that her emotionally distant husband has been having a decade-long affair with her best friend, and she recalls with guiltless joy her own short-lived affair with a gardener while her husband was on an American lecture tour. She also intervenes in the life of her estranged daughter and plays a crucial role at a particular moment in her French grandson's life. A lovely, enjoyable read. June SawyersCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

My Thoughts
I would not have compared this to "The Lovely Bones" at all. The ONLY similarity is that they take place from Heaven, but the similarities end there. "The Lovely Bones" was much darker and this was light and humourous. I loved this book, and would recommend it to anyone who has recently suffered a loss. Kate's antics at the beginning of the novel have you laughing aloud!