The Family Upstairs: A Novel

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK

"Rich, dark, and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect." --Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author

"A haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read." --Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True 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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384 pages

Average rating: 7.49

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Community Reviews

BookWorm94
Nov 02, 2024
4/10 stars
I really struggled with this one…. The changing of perspective and being written from three different POVs stopped the build up & anticipation for me.

It felt like the book was confused, with different story lines changing at multiple points throughout.

The random storyline of LSD being taken by underage boys was just didn’t fit in with anything else in the book, it felt like a filler story & I couldn’t get my head round it.

Overall I struggled to get into this & it took me over 2 weeks to read the first 150 pages, it was slow and disjointed!

Not for me.
Anonymous
Oct 06, 2024
2/10 stars
DNF @pg 150
J♡reading
Sep 02, 2024
4/10 stars
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Bookverse_i
Aug 21, 2024
7/10 stars
Review on "the family upstairs" Review 8.5/10 The family upstairs was THE book like I read this book, oh my god...this is the best ever crime based novel I have ever read!! It is mainly children who lived there childhood in a terrific nightmare as they invite people into their home. And as they try to escape from this household, things get out of hands. This novel contain many plot twists which may leave you in shock.. Basically I'm a big fan of Lisa Jewell...I would totally recommend you this novel...It's awesome.. The first 3 chapters might be boring but afterwards, it's so awesome... If this was some movie or series, you have my words...it's gonna be super! The only downside was the switching povs without telling like I got confused sometimes who's pov is going on. Like a name on the start on the ch would be great . But overall it's a great book that I totally recommend
Breeroth
Aug 09, 2024
6/10 stars
It took me about 150 ish pages into the book to grasp where this was going and how it was all going to connect. Once I did. It was relatively easy to figure out what happened. Henry’s character weirds me out and I’m not sure how to feel about it…. Once the “mystery” of everything was explained the ending of the book was kind of… blah. I think I just expected more and there wasn’t. Overall I don’t feel this was bad by any means. Just not sure it’s high on my list.

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