![]() ![]() Jewell rotates narration in The Family Upstairs among a trio of key characters. Libby discovers in swift succession the grisly scenario that led her to be adopted at 10 months, a rabbit’s foot keychain left for her in the crib, and disturbing noises upstairs at her new, supposedly unoccupied, house. Sixteen Cheyne Walk is no windfall, though. But this addicting thriller is also about identity, family, and most of all, the dark side of charisma.Īs the novel opens, it’s Libby’s 25 th birthday, and she’s just found out that she’s inherited a home in the posh Chelsea section of London. ![]() So it makes sense that her newest, The Family Upstairs, is on one level the horrific backstory of Libby Jones, found alone in her crib, the only survivor of an apparent group suicide. In I Found You, she excavates the impact of memories as part of her tale of an amnesiac who appears near a single mother’s home. ![]() In The Girls in the Garden, she uses an attack on a young teen as the foil to explore different styles of motherhood and the grass-is-greener lure of another’s spouse. The London-based writer consistently plumbs both the mysteries at hand and the societal pressures that fuel her characters. Eighteen books in, Lisa Jewell excels at domestic suspense. ![]()
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