Uncannily good and totally gripping. One that will remain in your mind long after you have finished it. A page turner that keeps you guessing right until the end. Likeable characters with just a touch of bad, and bad characters with just a hint of redemption. And pure evil, taking advantage of the weak and impressionable. Lisa Jewell is a first rate storyteller and I highly recommend this book.

My thanks to Random House UK, Lisa Jewell and NetGalley for my ARC of The Family Upstairs.
Oh my goodness!  If you want to read this one make sure you put aside enough time to read it in one go because you won't want to put it down. It's such a unique story with so many twists and turns that you just can't stop reading. 
I love stories about old houses and THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS  didn't disappoint. 
In a Chelsea mansion are three dead bodies dressed in black tunics, and upstairs in a beautiful cot bought from Harrods is a baby girl.  There is a scribbled note left next to the body of a woman, asking whoever finds the baby to take care of her. She is well-fed and has been cared for. So how has she come to be alone and what happened to the people downstairs?
Libby receives a letter from a solicitor informing her she is the sole beneficiary in a will.
Lucy lives in poverty in France with her children, Marco and Stella. All Lucy wants is to get back to London.
Henry is a computer whizz who has made a fortune in the industry. He deliberately rents an apartment where he can see into a house in Chelsea.
Clemency lives in Cornwall but has never stopped thinking about her brother Phinn whom she last saw when she was fourteen.
A once beautiful house and it's dark and horrific secrets connects them all. But how? One of my favourite reads so far this year.

I absolutely love Lisa Jewell and this book did not disappoint.
The story is told from three different view points with many twists along the way. It brings together events from 1990 alongside the present day and shows the relationships of three families living in one house. It describes the manipulation from a strong character and how this leads to the destruction of normal healthy people.
This book made the reader feel very uncomfortable at times with some dark story lines. However the ending felt very satisfactory and enabled me to understand the complex relationships between strangers sharing a house.
A great story line which I did not want to end

Wow !!! Well this certainly grabbed me from the start as I just kept reading and reading desperate to find out just what happened in the once beautiful house in Chelsea and who would leave a baby and why? There were so many questions in this story and told from multiple points of view and timelines it became a truly compulsive read. Dead bodies, stories of a cult, abandoned baby, creepy house, weird behaviour so what more can you ask for in a mystery thriller and as the suspense mounts it was a the proverbial page turner and I just loved it. Lisa Jewell can certainly write a great book and this was a story that I found very different from what I expected and it kept me enthralled and entertained from page one. Beautifully written and constructed I think we have a real hit here and I highly recommend it.
My thanks to NetGalley and Random House UK, Cornerstone, Century for giving me the chance to read the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

I’ll start by review by saying The Family Upstairs is clearly going to be a bestseller. It’s absolutely thrilling, a fresh plot and a dark mystery...what more could you possibly want? Add in a brilliant author with a back for world building and you have it all. Stop reading my review and get this ordered! (And make sure you come back to craftyfox  and thank me once you’ve read it!)

It’s the best book I’ve read this year and I promise it will take something very special to overtake this as my book of 2019.

Henry, his sister and his parents live a very privileged lifestyle in a large house in London. When he is twelve years old things start to change. His parents stop going out and stop spending money as readily as they always had. Then people come to stay. Little by little the house starts to feel like it no longer belongs to his family and Henry is not happy.
This story has quite a few twists and turns and things are not always as they seem.
Thank you to NetGalley and Random House UK, Cornerstone for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

When I had the opportunity to read the next Lisa Jewell, I couldn’t press ‘request’ quickly enough. I am a massive fan of her work anyway and this didn’t fail to disappoint. Read in two days it is ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. Dark, mysterious, creepy, funny, heartwarming and just simply brilliant. LOVED IT.

Gave up a third of the way through. There doesn’t seem to be enough of a story line to make me want to pick it up again. It’s well written and it flows well, but it’s a new day and I have no inclination to pick it up and start reading again. There’s no hook to the storyline to make me desperate to get back into it to see what happens.