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The family upstairs : a novel / Lisa Jewell.

Jewell, Lisa, (author.). Holland, Bea, (narrator.). Payne, Tamaryn, (narrator.). Thorburn, Dominic, (narrator.).

Summary:

Gifted musician Clemency Thompson is playing for tourists on the streets of southern France when she receives an urgent text message. Her childhood friend, Lucy, is demanding her immediate return to London. It's happening, says the message. The baby is back. Libby Jones was only six months old when she became an orphan. Now twenty-five, she's astounded to learn of an inheritance that will change her life. A gorgeous, dilapidated townhouse in one of London's poshest neighborhoods has been held in a trust for her all these years. Now it's hers. As Libby investigates the story of her birth parents and the dark legacy of her new home, Clemency and Lucy are headed her way to uncover, and possibly protect, secrets of their own. What really happened in that rambling Chelsea mansion when they were children?

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781508287681
  • ISBN: 1508287686
  • ISBN: 9781797113821
  • ISBN: 1797113828
  • Physical Description: 8 audio discs (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [New York, NY] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2019.

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General Note:
Compact discs.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland, Dominic Thorburn.

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Subject: Family secrets > Fiction.
Orphans > Fiction.
Musicians > France > Fiction.
Inheritance and succession > Fiction.
Mansions > England > London > Fiction.
Chelsea (London, England) > Fiction.
Genre: Suspense fiction.
Audiobooks.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Psychological fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Family Upstairs : A Novel
Family Upstairs : A Novel
by Jewell, Lisa; Payne, Tamaryn (Read by); Holland, Bea (Read by); Thorburn, Dominic (Read by)
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Family Upstairs : A Novel

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The three characters telling this twisted saga were all children in a mansion in the 1980s and 1990s as circumstances became darker and darker, finally ending in the deaths of the four adults who had literally kept the children under lock and key. The main setting is the London mansion that had been the home of Henry and Lucy Lamb and their parents, Henry and Martina. When Henry and Lucy were 11 and nine respectively, their household changed dramatically and continued to spiral downward for five years. Owing to Mr. Lamb's dwindling fortunes, and Mrs. Lamb's boredom with everyday life, new people were invited to move into the home, including a family with a boy and a girl close to the ages of Henry and Lucy. As the father of the new family gained power over the adults and then the children, life in the house became more and more bizarre, including dietary restrictions, clothing restrictions, and eventually restrictions on contact with the outside world. Narrators Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland, and Dominic Thornburn portray each of the character voices with warmth and sympathy. VERDICT This thriller will stay with the listener long after the last line is spoken.--Ann Weber, Bellarmine Coll. Prep., San Jose, CA

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