This was a page turner from start to finish, a creepy cult, a suicide pact, missing people and a dark, creepy old house with as many twists as the story. Libby Jones makes an important discovery about her identity on her 25th birthday she receives a letter revealing the names of her birth parents and her inheritance of an abandoned mansion along the Thames River in Chelsea. Finally we have Libby who having turned 25 has just discovered she has inherited a large house in Chelsea and all the dark, twisted secrets that come with it.

We have single mother Lucy living in France and trying to get back to London after a calendar reminder tells her ‘the baby is 25’. The story follows three different narrators: Libby Jones, Lucy Lamb, and Henry Lamb. Told from three perspectives we have Henry in present day telling the story of how everything changed when he was a child. 4 min read Rating 7 / 10 Buy From Amazon Book Depository The Family Upstairs, which published in 2019, is written by well-known British author, Lisa Jewell.Blystone and starring Virginia Valli, Allan Simpson, and J. I like my psychological thrillers dark and twisty so this was perfect. The Family Upstairs is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by John G. This was the first book I’ve read by Lisa Jewell although I’ve heard lots of good things. Shortly after Birdie’s friends David and Sally arrive with their two children and things start to go badly. But things change when Henry’s mum befriends fiddle playing pop star Birdie and she and her partner move in. Henry and his sister have had a privileged upbringing with their socialite parents, private schools, furniture and clothes from Harrods, and the big house in Chelsea. Synopsis: When Henry Lamb is eleven years old, things in his house begin to change. From CBTB’s Review: Some family secrets should never see the light of day. Thank you to Netgalley, Lisa Jewell and Random House UK for my arc of The Family Upstairs in exchange for an honest review. 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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