His parents are rich socialites living off inherited wealth. At the beginning of his story, he lives with his parents and younger sister in a large Chelsea townhouse.

Unlike the others, his is a first person account from the 1980s. She receives a reminder on her phone: The baby is 25. We also meet Lucy, who is scraping a living in the Cote d’Azur, with two young kids, a broken violin and no permanent address. She discovers that she is now the owner of a large property in the fashionable Chelsea area of London. But it’s especially so for Libby, who has finally come of the age to inherit a mysterious trust from her birth parents. This might be a “big” birthday for a lot of people. The first person we meet in “The Family Upstairs” is Libby Jones, who has just turned twenty-five. The only eyewitness to the last few hours of their lives is a young baby, who is discovered still clean, fed and healthy, several days later when the authorities finally come knocking This nightmare comes to a dramatic ending with what looks like a triple suicide. It follows the Lamb family, and the series of strangers who move into their house and turn their lives into a living nightmare. “The Family Upstairs” is a dark, gripping tale one part thriller, one part family saga. So, poor Lisa Jewell really had her work cut out for her here! A dark, gripping tale I’m reluctant to say I don’t like them, per se, because I’ve enjoyed the odd one here and there but they’re just not a genre I generally find myself drawn to.

I knew it was one of friend’s top reads of the year, but though my favourite read of the year “His Bloody Project” was another recommendation of hers, I hadn’t rushed to pick this one up. When I received “The Family Upstairs” by Lisa Jewellfor Christmas, I was actually a little taken aback. (But they are nice to look, at in my defence.)

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