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The Family Upstairs

By: Lisa Jewell
Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland, Dominic Thorburn
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FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF INVISIBLE GIRL

In a large house in London's fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up.

In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note.

They've been dead for several days.

Who has been looking after the baby?

And where did they go?

Two entangled families.

A house with the darkest of secrets.

A compulsive thriller from Lisa Jewell.

©2019 Lisa Jewell (P)2019 Penguin Audio Crime Fiction Domestic Thrillers Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Exciting Scary Thriller

Critic Reviews

"I swear I didn’t breathe the whole time.... Gripping, pacy, brilliantly twisty." (Clare Mackintosh)

"Creepy, intricate and utterly immersive...." (Guardian)

"A twisty and engrossing story of betrayal and redemption." (Ian Rankin)
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I loved it so very much, almost always on the edge of my seat. I will say it is a very emotionally heavy book definitely not for the light-hearted reader. Amazingly written, the author definitely has talent!

thrilling mystery

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It started out slow and was second guessing why I picked this book. but got addicted about half way through!

Enjoyable

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I was hooked from the very beginning. Highly recommend this book - each chapter kept you guessing.

Loved it!

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The story itself was very compelling & well written. It’s interesting how things turned out. The story had no real loose ends, which often happens with mysteries that jump back and forth in time.
The narrator for Lucy’s chapters voiced the 12yo boy like he was a surly dwarf, which was distracting. And her American male accent for Michael was annoyingly bad as well. I’m finding more and more that English narrators can’t do American accents for shit.
For Libby’s chapters, I didn’t like Miller’s accent or voice either. And the male narrator for Henry’s chapters made Martina seem like a European drag queen in my head.
I’m still new to audio books and I get annoyed with the non-English accents done by English narrators, and when the men do female voices. It just takes me right out of it.
Other than those annoying voices, the narrators were very good though. They are good voice actors and read well. It’s just those particular character voices...

Brilliant Story

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Loved listening to this whilst laying in bed with Covid. The suspense, the voices of the different characters, the story all perfectly captured my attention.

Great thriller

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Uncomfortably fantastic!
Really enjoyed this story, while I squirmed at times at the plights, delights, morals and discoveries of these characters, it was wholly relatable.
A deep dive into human nature, accountability and what we are all capable of.... if pushed.

Enjoyed!

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This was a fantastic story that pulled you in - found I was listening at every opportunity! Highly recommend if you love a story with lots of plot twists - need to download the sequel now.

Loved it

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great story. loved the male and female voices, made it easier to really get into the story

Going to listen to it again

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I loved this book, one of the best I've read in a long time, definitely worth a listen. A great story, well written and the narration was excellent.

Very enjoyable

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Love every parts of this book, and the narrators are spot on with the emotions! Highly recommended.

What a remarkable story!

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