The Family Upstairs: The #1 bestseller. ‘I read it all in one sitting’ – Colleen Hoover (The Family Upstairs, 1)

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Libby Jones was orphaned at six months old. She is now twenty-five and has just received a letter from a solicitor. She's been expecting this letter but she's still surprised by what it says. “ The house. They’ve left me the house.” Upon opening the letter, she learns startling news. In addition to further information about her birth parents, she also learns she is set to inherit their old home. In spite of her love for her adoptive family, she has remained curious about her early life, the details of which remain shrouded in mystery. Her mum knows what’s in here. Or at least she has an idea, though she was never told formally what was in the trust. It might, as she has always said, be a teapot and a ten-pound note. Confusing, disturbing, creepy, and I didn't want to look away. Twenty five year old Libby Jones, adopted as a baby, finds out her real identity and that she has inherited a mansion worth millions. She also finds out that she was found with three bodies, in the almost empty mansion. With the help of an investigative reporter, Libby attempts to find out what happened to her parents and the other people who had been rumored to be living in the house, at the time of their deaths.

The Past: Houseguests. They are never pleasant. Unless they are temporary. For a family living in a mansion in Chelsea, a ringing of the doorbell signals a whole host of changes that influences their entire lives, forever. Call it dark, eerie and downright strange.Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago. Rounded down from roughly 4.5 Stars ⭐️ This was my first book by Jewell and I cannot believe I waited so long to try one of her books! I would like to tell my readers that this book does include animal cruelty, incest, child abuse and rape. A terrific and engrossing continuation of this fascinatingly creepy, mysterious and oddly entertaining family saga.

I’m reluctant to say I don’t like them, per se, because I’ve enjoyed the odd one here and there; but they’re just not a genre I generally find myself drawn to. I think so.” There’s a covering letter, something about nobody else named on the trust coming forward in due time. She can’t digest it at all.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. There’s a family that invites these other families to come live with them, a dude growing drugs at their house, a woman who is fiddler that’s busking on the streets and asking her abusive ex-husband for help, and a possible suicide pact/cult murder. None of this is implausible or that out there, but they’re a bit weird plot components. Whether or not it’s weird in a good or bad way probably depends on the reader. The Good Stuff This might be a “big” birthday for a lot of people. But it’s especially so for Libby, who has finally come of the age to inherit a mysterious trust from her birth parents. We have three narrators, Libby, Lucy, a 40 year old mother without a penny to her name, and a male, who is responsible for much of my confusion. At first, because everything was so hard to understand, I thought I wasn't going to like this book. But eventually things start falling into place, while at the same time, it becomes clear that things in that mansion were much worse than it seemed at first glance. The audio is excellent and it's the male that adds so much of the creepy, dangerous atmosphere although the story really doesn't need help in building up the creepiness.

As she reaches her 25th-birthday, Libby gets to open a letter that has been held in trust for her since she was a baby. As always, Jewell does a fantastic job with characterization. I flew through this book in three days, as I needed to know more about Phin, Lucy, Libby, Rachel, Henry, and Michael. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Jewell, Lisa. The Family Upstairs. Atria Books, 2019. The book wasn't terrible until the last 25% or so. I was going to give it a generous three stars because I was caught up in the drama of it all, but then Lisa Jewell said HOLD MY BEER and this story nosedived into one-star territory at the speed of light. Lisa Jewell has written a spellbinding conclusion to her family drama that is surprisingly tense in places, leaving me holding my breath, heart pounding. The characters are complex, as we expect them to be; the plot twisty and compelling; the denouement just perfect.Which is awkward because it's held at my bookstore, so now I'm not allowed in my own place of business one Friday night a month. Found at just 10-months old, at the scene of an apparent cult-motivated suicide, Libby was taken in by the State and subsequently adopted out to a loving family.