艾利剋斯・希爾有兩個孩子，她寫過很多有關成年人和小孩的書，而且在電視係列劇，電影，舞颱劇和廣播節目方麵頗有成就。她曾做過30多份工作，並且從沒有停止過練習吉他。

她在本書中告訴人們：決不要在你怨恨的時候讓太陽下山。這句話的意思是說，在你睡覺前，決不能生氣或敵視任何人，特彆是不要敵視你所愛的人，因為你有可能今天晚上一躺下，明天早晨就再也起不來瞭……

You’ll be sorry when I’m dead.” That’s what Harry said to his sister right before he went off on his bike and got hit by a truck. And now he’s just thatdeadand he’s gone to the Other Side. Harry’s not quite sure how he fits in there, where the sun is always setting but never quite disappears and people wander about seemingly without direction, waiting to move on to the Great Blue Yonder. Moreover, he wishes he could take back what he said to his sister, or at least tell her he’s sorry. And he wouldn’t mind being able to say good-bye to everyone else he left behind. Then he finds a way to go back, and though what he discovers is not quite what he expected, he is given the chance to make peace with his sister, and more important, with himself.

This moving, often funny, book about grief, death, and loss will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.