It’s also quite disturbing, uncomfortable and addictive too as I read it in one afternoon. The Family Upstairs is probably her darkest book yet (I’m visualising Lisa writing this book in pitch black with a miner’s helmet it’s that dark!).

I’m a huge fan of Lisa Jewell’s later books especially the darker fiction (Then She Was Gone, I Found You and Watching You) so I was thrilled when I saw she has a new book coming out on 8th August. She now lives in an innermost part of north London with her husband Jascha, an IT consultant, her daughters, Amelie and Evie and her silver tabbies, Jack and Milly. It went on to become the best-selling debut novel of that year. She finished it in 1997 and it was published by Penguin books in May 1998. She started her first novel, Ralph’s Party, for a bet in 1996. She worked for the fashion chain Warehouse for three years as a PR assistant and then for Thomas Pink, the Jermyn Street shirt company for four years as a receptionist and PA. After leaving school at sixteen she spent two years at Barnet College doing an arts foundation course and then two years at Epsom School of Art & Design studying Fashion Illustration and Communication. She was educated at a Catholic girls’ Grammar school in Finchley. Her mother was a secretary and her father was a textile agent and she was brought up in the northernmost reaches of London with her two younger sisters. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In a large house in London’s fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Darkside (Exmoor Trilogy #2) – Belinda Bauer April 6, 2023.Finders Keepers (Exmoor Trilogy #3) – Belinda Bauer April 17, 2023.Spotlight – Conviction – Jack Jordan April 20, 2023.Blog Tour – The Birthday Reunion – Claire Seeber April 21, 2023.Want to know a Secret? – Freida McFadden April 21, 2023.Looking for something? Search for: Search MY MOST RECENT POSTS

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