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    After I finished Lisa Jewell's "Then She Was Gone", I proceed to read her other book called "The Family Upstairs". Published in 2019, by Atria Books, this book is one of the most captivating books I have ever read. When I first read the synopsis, I was thinking "Oh, this is just about a missing child, receiving her inheritance from her unknown birth family blabla". But of course, Lisa Jewell never disappoints. As the plot unravels, it reveals something more scandalous, eerier, and unsettling.      At first, the plot may seem confusing with multiple mysterious narrators. The first is Libby, that narrated some events that happened when she received her inheritance, a big dusty house in Chelsea. The second narrator is a boy named Henry, a mysterious boy who lived in that house 20 years ago that narrates some events that happened at that time. And a woman named Lucy, who struggles financially with her two children in France. The story flows back and fo...

      I came across this book on Pinterest, I was just looking for a recommendation for a thriller/ mystery/ horror book. And then, this book came along with the tagline 'A missing girl, with her buried secrets' (sort of something like that), which made me a bit curious. " Ten years after her teenage daughter goes missing, a woman connects with a charming single father, but she is still haunted by her child's disappearance"      'Then She Was Gone' was published in 2018, by Atria Books and became one of Lisa Jewell's best-selling books.  When I tell you, this book got me hooked. It was so well-written, and the words just flow right into the story. The question of "What happened to Ellie?" kept haunting me when I read this book, chapter by chapter. The feeling of suspense and curiosity gets bigger as I get closer to the end.  Completely heart-wrenching as the plot revealed, but the end doesn't leave you hanging. The story flow was backward...