The Family Upstairs : A Novel (Hardcover)

from jnmegan

Those familiar with Lisa Jewell will recognize her penchant for locked doors and secret family connections in her new novel, The Family Upstairs. Jewell has a flair for portraying extreme family dysfunction in a way that carefully treads the line of credulity, given the outrageousness of its comp...

from Twink

The Family Upstairs is the newest release from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell. On her twenty fifth birthday Libby Jones receives an unexpected letter from a lawyer. She learns her birth name and is stunned to find out she has inherited a Chelsea home worth millions. Desperate for a...

from librarygeek33

Excellent narration. How anyone can flawlessly switch between male, female, young, old and different accents is a beautiful mystery to me. The evil american character bothered me a little but overall, it was an engaging, suspenseful mystery - which is the point, after all.

from StressedRach

This is a little different from other books I have read by Lisa Jewell, a little darker and creepier. It is told in three POV, Libby, Lucy and Henry and the storylines flip between Henry in the past as a ten year old and as he grows up, in the present, Lucy a homeless mum of two and Libby who was...

from sriddell

Creepy, scary and yet you can see it happening. When you see headlines about children being kept captive by their own parents, and you ask yourself "how could this happen? who would do this to their own children?" This story is told from the pov of multiple narrators, traveling back and forth in...