PREPARE TO BE HOOKED. . . FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF INVISIBLE GIRLOne of Holly Willoughby's summer reading highlights!'I loved The Family Upstairs!' SARAH JESSICA PARKER'I read it all in one sitting.' COLLEEN HOOVER'I genuinely struggled to put this one down.' THE UNMUMSY MUM'A twisty and engrossing story of betrayal and redemption.' IAN RANKIN'Rich, dark and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunnit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.' RUTH WARE'Really good, gripping. I couldn't bear for it to finish...' OLIVIA COLMAN____________________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. ____________________Readers are obsessed with The Family Upstairs:'Hooked from page one''I totally adored this book... Definitely worth reading - as long you like reading into the night!''Clever would be an understatement. And those last pages left me with chills. The concept had me intrigued and the execution had me captivated. I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN!'____________________'You don't read a Lisa Jewell book, you fall into it. It takes huge talent to establish a whole world in the turn of two pages.' ERIN KELLY'I swear I didn't breathe the whole time I was reading it. Gripping, pacy, brilliantly twisty.' CLARE MACKINTOSH'Creepy, intricate and utterly immersive: an excellent holiday read.' GUARDIAN'I had an unrelentingly pleasurable and thrilling for-God's-sake-tell-me-what-happened sensation in my stomach for the entire read ... Stupendous!' RUTH JONES'Absolutely brilliant.' SARAH PINBOROUGH'Few writers of psychological suspense devise such swift, slippery plots. Lisa's Jewell's The Family Upstairs glitters like a blade and cuts even deeper.' AJ FINN'I was hooked from the first page' ALICE FEENEY'Utterly compelling. Deliciously dark and twisty with characters who live on in your head. Lisa Jewell just keeps getting better and better.' JANE CORRY'It's absolutely bloody brilliant and I can't tell you much I wish I'd written it.' TAMMY COHEN#1 Bestseller in the UK, Sunday Times, August 2019; 480 pages; Published: 12/12/2019