I feel like that turns the end of each little chapter the perfect stopping point, or a delightful cliffhanger. (Also, once I finished the show I was currently binging, that helped to get into it more, too.) It’s told from a few different viewpoints, as well as two different time periods, which I generally like about a novel. But once I got into the flow of it, I settled right in. This may have been due to the British setting and general writing style. It took me a little while to get into it. The Family Upstairs seemed like the perfect distraction to the current climate (as I write this, we’re in the middle – or maybe nearing the end of the Covid-19 pandemic). Flash forward to March and I guess I was looking for just that kind of escape! There’s a pretty solid theme with my book reviews lately…they have all been Book of The Month choices! (If you havent heard of that, read my review of BOTM here.) And the theme continues- this is the book I chose in November of 2019 i think because it’s description seemed mysterious and suspenseful. 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. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom.
Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying.
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. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. 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. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.
Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. “A haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read.” -Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling authorįrom the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.
“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 The Family Upstairs‘ Back-of-Book DescriptionĪ GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK
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