Plus, it has over 1,500 near 5-star reviews on Amazon - I don’t blindly trust the judgment of one man (or even a few) but give me fifteen hundred and I’ll give it a try. It has to be, right? You cannot go by the name of Jewell and produce literary works of cubic zirconia.
I don’t particularly like the cover art on The Family Upstairs.īut I can both acknowledge and overcome my faults so I’ve just finished dining on this Jewell of a book?
I have heard her name, and heard people mention her books, but until now I have never been compelled to read one.Īs a picture of food often compels us to visit a restaurant, I will admit I do judge a book by its cover and perhaps that is the reason that I have never before read this Lisa Jewell book. This is the first book that I have read by Lisa Jewell. ( From the publisher.In this book review of The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell, I will share with you what I liked, what I didn’t like, and whether this is a book that you should have on your bookshelves or in your Kindle collection. 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. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom.ĭownstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. 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. 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.Įverything in Libby’s life is about to change. 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. From author of Then She Was Gone comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.
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