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In a big house in London’s fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and looked after, she is gladly waiting for someone to choose her up..Read More about The Family Upstairs: The Number One bestseller from the writer of Then She Was Eliminated

In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Near them is definitely a hastily scrawled notice.

They’ve been dead for several times.

Who has been looking after the baby?

And where did they go?

Two entangled family members.

A house using the darkest of secrets.

A compulsive new thriller from Lisa Jewell.

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