The others have been waiting for Libby to turn twenty-five, to inherit the house and finally come back to Chelsea. The corpses had all been dressed in black homespun, apparent members of a cult which had ended with a suicide pact.īut her dead parents and the mysterious man lying deceased beside them were not the only members of that cult. She also learns that when she was a baby, she had been found in that home by the police, alone except for three dead bodies. Twenty-five years later, Libby Jones receives a letter from a solicitor advising her of the identity of her birth parents and apprising her of the fact that she is the sole inheritor of their posh home in Chelsea. As he tells us at the start of the tale, “They lived with us for more than five years and they turned everything very, very dark.” Henry quickly realizes that his mum’s ‘guests’ are never leaving. Instead, they bring friends, the friend’s children, a cat. But then the couple don’t leave, even after the shoot is finished. When Justin and Birdie move into Henry’s parent’s home, it’s supposed to be for just a few days, while her band films a music video there. The arrangement was meant to be temporary.
You’ll forever be leery of having house guests once you’ve finished. The can’t-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets.Sinister, seductive, and scary, Lisa Jewell’s The Family Upstairs is a masterpiece of the domestic thriller genre you won’t want to put down once you’ve started. 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. Thriller - Psychological Thriller - Suspense
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