The Family Upstairs - Hardcover

Jewell, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1501190105 ISBN 13: 9781501190100

Publisher: Atria Books, 2019

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes another page-turning look inside one family's past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

Be careful who you let in.

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.

She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's life is about to change. But what she can't possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well--and she is on a collision course to meet them.

Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone.

In The Family Upstairs, the master of "bone-chilling suspense" (People) brings us the can't-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets.

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Review:

"I've just raced through the brilliantly dark and disturbing The Family Upstairs. Absolutely couldn't put it down, it's so good!" --B. A. PARIS, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors

"I'm a big fan of Lisa's books and had hoped to save it for my holiday next week, but failed miserably by devouring The Family Upstairs as soon as it arrived. I was hooked from the first page, I think it's her best yet and hands down my favourite book so far this year." --ALICE FEENEY, New York Times bestselling author of Sometimes I Lie

"Lisa Jewell is the most wonderful writer, and funnily enough we've written about a similar theme with our new books--cults, in microcosm and macrocosm. The Family Upstairs is out 8 August and I can't rant enough about how brilliant it is." --ALEX MARWOOD, author of The Wicked Girls

"Wow. Lisa Jewell has done it again. I absolutely loved The Family Upstairs. Intriguing, absorbing, unputdownable with characters so real they jump from the page." --LAURA MARSHALL, author of Three Little Lies and Friend Request

Praise for Watching You

"Quickly and assuredly, Jewell builds an ecosystem of countervailing suspicions...Tricky, clever, unexpected." --New York Times Book Review

"A twisty British mystery...Brace yourself as Jewell stacks up the secrets, then lights a long, slow fuse." --People

"Page one intrigued me. Page three hooked me. By page five, I was consumed. This compulsive, propulsive novel is both a seize-you-by-the-throat thriller and a genuinely moving family drama. Stellar." --A. J. FINN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

"A twisty whodunit." --Cosmopolitan

"This suspense is going to have you turning the pages all night long." --Bustle

"[A] crafty conundrum...the author smoothly juggles multiple story lines...prepare to be blindsided by the murder victim's identity, not revealed until late in the game--and an even more stunning final surprise. Jewell does a masterly job of maintaining suspense." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Lisa Jewell is the internationally bestselling author of eighteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller Then She Was Gone, as well as I Found You, The Girls in the Garden, and The House We Grew Up In. In total, her novels have sold more than two million copies across the English-speaking world and her work has also been translated into sixteen languages so far. Lisa lives in London with her husband and their two daughters. Connect with her on Twitter @LisaJewellUK and on Facebook @LisaJewellOfficial.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1501190105
• ISBN 13: 9781501190100
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340