Family Upstairs

PREPARE TO BE HOOKED . . .*#1 UK SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD**HOLLY WILLOUGHBY'S SUMMER READING HIGHLIGHT*'I read it all in one sitting.' COLLEEN HOOVER'I loved The Family Upstairs!' SARAH JESSICA PARKER 'Really good, gripping. I couldn't bear for it to finish...' OLIVIA COLMAN'A twisty and engrossing story of betrayal and redemption.' IAN RANKIN 'Rich, dark and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunnit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.' RUTH WARE

In a large house in London's fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They've been dead for several days. Who has been looking after the baby? And where did they go? Two entangled families. A house with the darkest of secrets. A compulsive thriller from Lisa Jewell.

More love for The Family Upstairs ...'My eyes were glued to this book! A brilliant thriller and must read!' HAYLEY MORRIS'I genuinely struggled to put this one down.' THE UNMUMSY MUM 'You don't read a Lisa Jewell book, you fall into it.' ERIN KELLY'I swear I didn't breathe the whole time I was reading it. Gripping, pacy, brilliantly twisty.' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'Creepy, intricate and utterly immersive: an excellent holiday read.' GUARDIAN'I had an unrelentingly pleasurable and thrilling for-God's-sake-tell-me-what-happened sensation in my stomach for the entire read ... Stupendous!' RUTH JONES 'Absolutely brilliant.' SARAH PINBOROUGH 'Lisa's Jewell's The Family Upstairs glitters like a blade and cuts even deeper.' AJ FINN'I was hooked from the first page.' ALICE FEENEY 'Utterly compelling. Deliciously dark and twisty with characters who live on in your head. Lisa Jewell just keeps getting better and better.' JANE CORRY'It's absolutely bloody brilliant and I can't tell you much I wish I'd written it.' TAMMY COHEN

I swear I didn’t breathe the whole time I was reading. Gripping, pacy, brilliantly twisty., Rich, dark and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunnit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect., Twisty and engrossing story of betrayal and redemption. Reminiscent of Donna Tartt in scope and quality, Few writers of psychological suspense devise such swift, slippery plots; fewer still people their stories with characters so human and complex. Lisa’s Jewell’s The Family Upstairs glitters like a blade and cuts even deeper., Creepy, intricate and utterly immersive: an excellent holiday read.

LISA JEWELL was born in London in 1968. Her first novel, Ralph's Party, was the best- selling debut novel of 1999. Since then she has written another eighteen novels, most recently a number of dark psychological thrillers, including The Girls, Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs (all of which were Richard & Judy Book Club picks). Lisa is a New York Times and Sunday Times number one bestselling author who has been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages. She lives in north London with her husband, two teenage daughters and the best dog in the world.

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