While Libby is the outsider trying to solve the mystery of her existence. Lucy, on the other hand, gives readers the point of view of an adult survivor, which is also quite intriguing. Henry is a teenager that comes of age during the novel, and while he sees the wrong in his living conditions, he has a hard time finding a way out. Told from three points of view, The Family Upstairs gives readers lots of differing perspectives on the events that occur in the book. Henry and Lucy’s mother lets the people in, and then the story turns very creepy. Readers will have to believe in the possibility that a family can be conned and lured into a cult-like lifestyle. This book is classic Lisa Jewell, as the concept is so twisted and mysterious. Review: The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ❃ I received this book for free from the publisher 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. 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.

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