The Family Remains: the gripping Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller (The Family Upstairs, 2)

Product Information

Special thanks to NetGalley and Atria Books for sharing this amazing digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts. I definitely can’t wait to read more by this author, even if I didn’t love this one quite as much as the first book. Jewell, you have stretched my heart and mind to your will, and I was happy to go wherever you took me. A trip to Botswana to meet Phin is planned but falls through when Phin leaves Botswana when he finds out about their upcoming visit. If you’re excited about there being a sequel to The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell, you can be glad that she listened to her readers who kept clamoring for the story from that book to be continued.

I experienced it in my first marriage in my early twenties and it’s something that I think I will always revisit in my writing.

A: I wrote this sequel in an effort to comprehensively complete the stories of all of the characters from both books.

If this book had a pic of a cat eating lasagna with a baddie standing in the window holding a vial of posion and was titled 2 Hot 2 Handle then I'd be like ight, this drama is kinda fun or whatever. Lisa is a number one New York Times and Sunday Times author who has sold over ten million books worldwide and be This is a dark, intense and thrilling read, never less than compelling, which includes trauma, blackmail, abuse, murder, in this superior narrative where the separate threads are expertly woven together and connected.

There are multiple timelines that are well defined and I felt such dread with the earlier timelines. As they all race to discover answers to these convoluted mysteries, they will come to find that they’re connected in ways they could have never imagined.

And Phin goes back to Botswana, but now has a close relationship with his daughter, Libby and his mother and sister down in Cornwall. I hadn’t enjoyed the experience and didn’t like the resultant book and thus was very adamant at first when readers were asking for a sequel to The Family Upstairs that I would not do one. The third was gripping - but it raced through Phins character which could and should have been so much more .But I was also worried that I would miss the joy of bringing new characters to life on the page, so once Rachel Rimmer and Samuel Owusu arrived on the scene, that’s when the book really came alive for me. Lucy had plans of finding a home of her own somewhere close to Libby that she, Marco and Stella could live in. While she settles in with her children and is just about to purchase their first house, her brother takes off to find the boy from their shared past whose memory haunts their present. It’s gradually revealed how some of the characters are intertwined and the common theme between these stories. All the sinister and creepy details about The Family Upstairs came flooding back to me with Lisa Jewell’s help as she referenced many of the details throughout the sequel.