The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell is the sequel to “The Family Upstairs”, which left the reader guessing at the fates of two families, the Lambs and the Thomsens.
The narrative begins in London, where early one morning in June 2019, on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. They prove to be human bones.
DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene. She immediately sends the bag and its contents for forensic examination. The bones are found to be those of a young woman, who was killed by a blow to the head many years ago.
The bag also contains seeds from a tree that is rarely found in a place such as London. They lead DCI Owusu to a mansion in Chelsea where, almost thirty years ago, three people lay dead in a kitchen, and a baby remained alive upstairs waiting to be rescued.
As DCI Owusu begins to attempt to unravel the mystery, a brother and sister are searching for the only person who can make sense of their pasts.
Behind four deaths and an abandoned baby, there is a family whose secrets can’t remain buried in the
past for much longer.
Although this is the sequel to “The Family Upstairs”, it is also an enigmatic and gripping stand alone
novel.
This is another beautifully descriptive, perceptive, and memorable narrative from this extremely popular
author. The intricately woven and mysterious lives of the characters involved will keep the reader guessing until the very end.
The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell is a masterfully crafted edge-of-the-seat page-turner.
ISBN: 9781529125801
The Family Remains is available in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook.
About Lisa Jewell
Lisa Jewell was born in London. Her first novel, Ralph’s Party, was the bestselling debut novel of 1999.
Since then she has published another sixteen novels, most recently a number of dark psychological
thrillers, including The Girls and Then She Was Gone (both of which were Richard & Judy Book Club
picks) as well as I Found You and Watching You. Lisa is a top ten New York Times and number one
Sunday Times bestselling author who has been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages. She
lives in north London with her husband, two daughters, two cats, two guinea pigs and the best dog in the
world.
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