Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1138 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-02
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Time
'Albom has done it again . . . a powerful book, powerful enough to make one's inner snob feel a little uncomfortable'

Publishing News
'Simple, unaffected and written with great feeling'

Synopsis
From the author of the phenomenal number one bestseller TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, comes this enchanting, beautifully written novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold. Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of his father before him, fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. Then he dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life. Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure? The answer is as magical and inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself.

Customer Reviews

five people you meet in heaven
a book that soothes the soul, repairs and heals and i am so glad i read it, iwas given it by a cousin after a spate of deaths. i was all grieved out but found this book beautiful and i have never reacted to a book the way i did this one....beautiful

It moved even my stony heart.
I sat reading this book on a long haul flight next to my very senior boss. Despite needing to keep my proffesionalism and composure throughout the flight, I couldn't. Only a handful of books have ever made me cry and I was literally sobbing. So unexpected; it's a simple story, beautifully written and the ending touched my heart.

maybe it's slightly better. im not sure
This book was quite inspirational. but the problem with it was, i didnt feel excited enough to go back to it everytime i put it down. So even though it's only a short read, it took me ages to finish it. But saying that, when i did pick it up again to read, i was quite immersed in it. So im not exactly sure why i didnt feel the push to read it in a day or two. so i think if i could, i'd give it 3-1/2 stars.

I thought it was wrtten beautifully, and i liked the actual 5 people Eddie met in heaven. and like another reviewer, i wasn't expecting the 5th one, and that was the more emotional of them all. I thought the ending was beautiful. And it kind of makes you think, or hope, that there's some special people from your life waiting to meet you again.

I enjoyed reading about Eddie's time in the army, i thought it was really well written and i felt for him and the tough times he went through. I'm a big believer in fate and everything happens for a reason and this book is all about that, which i really liked and felt comforted by it. But like i said, im not sure what, but it didnt grip me quite enough. Although i will read it again in the future, and will recommend it to people just for the fact that it leaves you with a lovely, comforted feeling.