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Lingua:Libri ItalianiCos’è accaduto davvero tra quelle mura? Che fine hanno fatto gli altri abitanti della casa di Chelsea? E, soprattutto, in che modo quei drammatici eventi hanno a che fare con gli strani rumori che Libby sente provenire dal piano di sopra, benchè sia certa di essere sola in quella strana e tetra dimora?
Avvincente, claustrofobico thriller psicologico, che, tra suspense e colpi di scena, riesce a tenere il lettore inchiodato alla pagina, La famiglia del piano di sopra costituisce una splendida conferma del talento dell’autrice di Ellie all’improvviso.
«Pochi scrittori di suspense escogitano trame così piene di trappole; meno ancora sono quelli capaci di creare personaggi tanto umani e complessi. La famiglia del piano di sopra brilla come una lama e taglia ancora più a fondo». A. J. Finn
«Ricco, oscuro rompicapo, questo avvincente thriller mescola la saga familiare con il noir domestico con effetti da brivido». Ruth Ware
Una sera, sulla spiaggia, Alice scorge la sagoma di un uomo: seduto sulla sabbia umida, le braccia allacciate intorno alle ginocchia, l’uomo indossa solo jeans e camicia e sembra indifferente al vento che solleva spruzzi gelidi. Non è abbastanza malconcio per essere un vagabondo né abbastanza strano per essere un paziente del centro di salute mentale del paese. Ma ha un’aria talmente sperduta, uno sguardo così confuso e triste che Alice decide di avvicinarlo e di prestargli soccorso. L’uomo le rivela di non sapere nulla di sé, del perché si trova lì e di come ci è arrivato.
Tra gli sguardi increduli dei tre figli, Alice porta a casa lo sconosciuto e lo sistema nella piccola dépendance che di solito affitta, ma in quel momento è vuota. Una decisione avventata e di certo rischiosa, dato che quell’uomo in evidente stato confusionale e senza alcuna memoria del suo passato potrebbe essere chiunque.
Quella stessa sera, a Londra, Lily Monrose telefona alla polizia per denunciare la scomparsa di suo marito, Carl Monrose. Quando non lo ha visto tornare dal lavoro ha avuto la sensazione che un ghiacciolo le scivolasse lungo la schiena. Lei e Carl sono rientrati dal viaggio di nozze solo dieci giorni prima e lui si precipitava a casa tutte le sere appena finiva di lavorare, prima di svanire nel nulla lasciando dietro di sé una scia di inquietanti interrogativi, tra cui una falsa identità.
La soluzione di questi misteri sembra condurre a un evento accaduto ventitré anni prima, quando due adolescenti, Gray e Kirsty, in vacanza con i loro genitori in un pittoresco villaggio di mare, incontrarono un giovane un po’ singolare. Un giovane che aveva occhi solo per Kirsty.
Attraverso una trama capace di mantenere sempre alta la tensione, e grazie a una scrittura dal ritmo incalzante, Lisa Jewell ci consegna un romanzo dalla suspense travolgente e dagli esiti totalmente inaspettati.
«Lisa Jewell è una meravigliosa narratrice: i suoi personaggi sono credibili, la scrittura è forte e poetica e la narrazione è ricca di suspense e colpi di scena».
Library Journal
«Il modo di raccontare di Lisa Jewell è così emotivamente realistico che è impossibile non essere coinvolti… Un po’ giallo, un po’ thriller e un po’ storia d’amore, questo romanzo vi terrà incollati alla sedia».
Psychologies
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#1 UK SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD
HOLLY WILLOUGHBY'S SUMMER READING HIGHLIGHT
'I read it all in one sitting.' COLLEEN HOOVER
'I loved The Family Upstairs!' SARAH JESSICA PARKER
'Really good, gripping. I couldn't bear for it to finish...' OLIVIA COLMAN
'A twisty and engrossing story of betrayal and redemption.' IAN RANKIN
'Rich, dark and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunnit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.' RUTH WARE
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In a large house in London's fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up.
In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note.
They've been dead for several days.
Who has been looking after the baby?
And where did they go?
Two entangled families.
A house with the darkest of secrets.
A compulsive thriller from Lisa Jewell.
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More love for The Family Upstairs ...
'I genuinely struggled to put this one down.' THE UNMUMSY MUM
'You don't read a Lisa Jewell book, you fall into it.' ERIN KELLY
'I swear I didn't breathe the whole time I was reading it. Gripping, pacy, brilliantly twisty.' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'Creepy, intricate and utterly immersive: an excellent holiday read.' GUARDIAN
'I had an unrelentingly pleasurable and thrilling for-God's-sake-tell-me-what-happened sensation in my stomach for the entire read ... Stupendous!' RUTH JONES
'Absolutely brilliant.' SARAH PINBOROUGH
'Lisa's Jewell's The Family Upstairs glitters like a blade and cuts even deeper.' AJ FINN
'I was hooked from the first page.' ALICE FEENEY
'Utterly compelling. Deliciously dark and twisty with characters who live on in your head. Lisa Jewell just keeps getting better and better.' JANE CORRY
'It's absolutely bloody brilliant and I can't tell you much I wish I'd written it.' TAMMY COHEN
PREPARE TO BE HOOKED ... **The sequel to the million-copy bestseller THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS**
'Hugely satisfying read.' LOUISE CANDLISH
'Grips from the first page to last.' PAULA HAWKINS
'By far Lisa's best yet.' GILLIAN MCALLISTER
'A gripping read... superb!' SHARI LAPENA
'At the top of her game.' KARIN SLAUGHTER
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LONDON. Early morning, June 2019: on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones.
DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene and quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago.
Also inside the bag is a trail of clues, in particular the seeds of a rare tree which lead DCI Owusu back to a mansion in Chelsea where, nearly thirty years previously, three people lay dead in a kitchen, and a baby waited upstairs for someone to pick her up.
The clues point forward too to a brother and sister in Chicago searching for the only person who can make sense of their pasts.
Four deaths. An unsolved mystery. A family whose secrets can't stay buried for ever ...
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IT'S LISA JEWELL'S NEW NOVEL . . .
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More love for The Family Remains . . .
'Gives us an unforgettable ending' JANE CORRY
'It's a triumph. Brava!' ERIN KELLY
'Compulsive, gripping and immersive.' CL TAYLOR
'A sheer pleasure to read.' HARRIET TYCE
'Simply masterful.' SAMANTHA DOWNING
'Lisa Jewell is, simply, outstanding.' ALEX MARWOOD
'Compelling, ingenious, breath-stopping.' TAMAR COHEN
'A witty and propulsive stunner of a novel.' KATHERINE HEINY
'This is Lisa Jewell at her absolute best. I loved it!' PAUL BURSTON
'The story everyone has been waiting for. Wonderfully satisfying.' ADELE PARKS
'A masterclass in storytelling from one of the best there is.' AMANDA JENNINGS
'Another masterclass in thriller writing from the current queen of psychological suspense.' MARK EDWARDS
'A compulsive, dark, satisfying tale that will pick you up and refuse to put you down.' CATHERINE STEADMAN
'This is perfection on a page.' ALICE FEENEY
'Twisty, intriguing and utterly compelling!' ANDREA MARA
'Compelling, intriguing and entirely entertaining, I absolutely loved it!'
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'The Night She Disappeared is by far her best thriller yet.' HARLAN COBEN
'Insane suspense. I loved it.' LEE CHILD
'A gothic, multi-layered tale, deeply satisfying. We both loved it.' RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB
The Night She Disappeared is UNBELIEVABLY good. I was utterly utterly agog.' MARIAN KEYES
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A cold case. An abandoned mansion. A family hiding a terrible secret. Prepare to be hooked. Lisa Jewell's latest thriller is her best yet.
Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim.
At 11 p.m. she sends her mum a text message. At 4.30 a.m. Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home.
Friends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place.
Tallulah never returns.
2018: walking in the woods behind the boarding school where her boyfriend has just started as a head teacher, Sophie sees a sign nailed to a fence.
A sign that says: DIG HERE . . .
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'No one thickens a plot like Lisa Jewell. I couldn't put this book down. Jewell just keeps getting better. It's SO GOOD!' SHARI LAPENA
'Absolutely loved this one by Lisa Jewell - compelling, deep, surprising, tense, modern. Most thrillers are in black and white to me in terms of character and Lisa is blazing saturated technicolour.' GILLIAN MCALLISTER
'Masterly. Gripping from start to finish.' JOANNE HARRIS
'I'm calling it early. This is Lisa's best book yet, and she always sets that bar high! Stayed up so late because I couldn't put it down.' ADELE PARKS
'Oh my God, so good. A head-scratching, heart-racing, page-turning triumph - I think this might be my favourite Lisa Jewell yet.' LOUISE CANDLISH
'I swear her books are masterclasses for authors. Every time I read one, I'm in awe. I loved this one so much - clever, slick and so intriguing. Lots of emotion and I love how all the sub-plots come together. #bowdowntoLisa' MEL SHERRATT
'Another first-class mystery . . . Totally enthralling.' HARRIET TYCE
'I predict another number one.' ERIN KELLY
'Once again Lisa Jewell has knocked it out of the park. Another masterclass in thriller writing from one of the world's most consistently brilliant authors. I was superglued to the pages.' MARK EDWARDS
'Totally absorbing. I felt as though I'd slipped into the book and lived there for a few days, heart pounding.
BESTSELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, AND A TOP RICHARD & JUDY SELECTION
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OVER 1,000 5* REVIEWS – this is why readers love this book:
'Grips to the point of OBSESSION'
'My life STOPPED while I read this book'
'My heart was THUMPING in my chest'
'This is EDGE OF YOUR SEAT reading'
'This book left me BREATHLESS'
'Cancel all plans and BUY THIS BOOK'
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She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl.
She had her whole life ahead of her.
And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.
Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of finding Ellie. And then she meets a charming and charismatic stranger who sweeps her off her feet.
But what really takes her breath away is when she meets his nine-year-old daughter.
Because his daughter is the image of Ellie.
Now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back.
What really happened to Ellie? And who still has secrets to hide?
Everyone has secrets. What if you can't remember yours?
'Fresh and intriguing, with characters so real I ached for them. I loved I Found You' Clare Mackintosh
'I LOVED I Found You. A proper thriller with wonderful characters' Sabine Durrant
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Two women. Twenty years of secrets. And a man who doesn't remember anything.
Or does he?
Lily has only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night, she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one.
Alice finds a man on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, no idea what he is doing there. Against her better judgement, she invites him into her home.
But who is he, and how can she trust a man who has lost his memory?
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Readers love I FOUND YOU ...
***** 'Wow! I loved this book. A fantastic psychological suspense novel.'
***** 'This book had EVERYTHING!!! I enjoyed this very, very much.'
***** 'Lisa Jewell never lets me down ever. A great book with an ending you may not be expecting.'
***** 'This is my favourite novel by this author so far.'
***** 'For fast paced suspense, well developed characters, and a great story, it just doesn't get any better than this!'
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Praise for Lisa Jewell ...
'I read it all in one sitting' COLLEEN HOOVER
'I loved The Family Upstairs!' SARAH JESSICA PARKER
'Gripping' OLIVIA COLMAN
'Enthralling' RUTH WARE
'Engrossing' IAN RANKIN
'Twisty' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'Excellent' GUARDIAN
'Stupendous' RUTH JONES
'Brilliant' SARAH PINBOROUGH
'Unputdownable' C.L. TAYLOR
From the #1 bestselling author of THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS and THEN SHE WAS GONE comes an engrossing, twist-packed story of dark family secrets and betrayal.
'Her best yet.' JOJO MOYES
'Dark, furiously twisty and utterly gripping.' LUCY FOLEY
'A masterclass in how to write with pace and tension.' HARRIET TYCE
*****UK Sunday Times Bestseller, August 2020*****
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YOU DON'T SEE HER. BUT SHE SEES YOU.
MIDNIGHT. In the bad part of town, where cats prowl and foxes shriek, a girl is watching...
When Saffyre Maddox was ten, something terrible happened, and she's carried the pain of it ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides and watches him, learning his secrets, invisible in the shadows.
Owen Pick is invisible too. He's never had a girlfriend; he's never even had a friend.
Nobody sees him. Nobody cares.
But when Saffyre goes missing from opposite his house on Valentine's Day, suddenly the whole world is looking at Owen.
Accusing him. Holding him responsible for Saffyre's disappearance...
INVISIBLE GIRL: an engrossing, twisty story of how we look in the wrong places for bad people while the real predators walk among us in plain sight.
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'Gripping, disturbing and acutely observant; Jewell is an extremely special writer.' ALEX MARWOOD
'She isn't afraid of plunging an icy blade into her readers' hearts whilst examining the cruel realities of the world.' ADELE PARKS
'Compelling and surprisingly moving - Lisa Jewell never lets you down.' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'A wonderful slow-burn gripper - I loved it.' LOUISE CANDLISH
'An up-all-night gripping story with characters who feel as real as you and me.' ERIN KELLY
'Invisible Girl is quite brilliant in every way.' JANE CASEY
'Dark, gripping, emotionally intense. My heart hurt from being squeezed so tight.' TAMAR COHEN
'I loved it. Every damn word.' AJ FINN
'A breathtakingly brilliant novel by an author at the absolute top of her game.' JENNY COLGAN
'Lisa Jewell's dark and twisty thriller explores the murkier reaches of the human psyche, confounding expectations as it reaches a shocking denouement.' DAILY MAIL
'An engrossing and compelling read.' MIRROR
'Another twisty, turny and tangled thriller from Lisa Jewell.
The compelling Sunday Times bestseller about two neighbours brought together by fate, from the million-copy bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
'Another jewel from Lisa' HEAT
'Perfect to curl up on the sofa on a Sunday and read in one delightful sitting!' 5***** READER REVIEW
'A big warm-hearted book' MARIE CLAIRE
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For years, Toby has opened his door to the people who needed his help.
For years, Leah has been fascinated by the mysterious house across the street and its unusual mix of occupants.
They've never met - until Toby receives a letter that draws Leah inside.
Finally, Leah gets to know the lives of the people she's wondered about for so long - a group of artists who have each lost their way.
When Toby decides he needs to move on with his life, he knows he needs to help his tenants, too.
Leah insists on helping his plan to bring them all happiness.
But can she also make Toby's dreams come true?
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'Truly delightful, lively and fun' 5***** Reader Review
'A life-affirming tale studded with Jewell's trademark warmth and humour' Red
'Such a feel-good book!' 5***** Reader Review
The smash-hit romantic comedy from the author of The Girls and Then She Was Gone
Six people, one big house and the party that brings it all down . . .
Ralph and Smith are flatmates and best mates. Nothing can come between them - until the gorgeous Jemima moves in. They're both falling for her, but which one of them does she want?
Upstairs, Karl and Siobhan are happily unmarried and have been for fifteen years - until Cheri moves into the flat above, and fixes her sights on Karl. Why should a little problem like his girlfriend get in her way?
Sooner or later this house is bound to implode.
So when Ralph throws a party and invites the whole house, what could possibly go wrong?
If you like Marian Keyes, Jane Fallon, and Sophie Kinsella, you'll love this.
'Addictively readable' The Times
'A joy . . . a fun summer read' Guardian
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