December 2021
About:
How well do you know your neighbour?
Would you trust them with your life?
I heard Emily before I saw her. The harsh smack of heels against cheap wooden floorboards. The loud phone calls. The incessant music.
I knew Emily before I met her. Discarded receipts in our communal hallway. Sticky leftovers in the shared food waste bin. Wine shop vouchers in the letterbox.
Now she’s gone missing, and I’m the only one who can find her. The only one who can save her.
Because I know her best, and I heard everything.
The Girl Upstairs is a spine-tingling psychological thriller of grief and obsession that explores how lonely London can be and how sometimes it’s our neighbours who see us most, who know us best…
Review:
This started off for me a bit slow, it annoyed me that I was reading about a neighbour who always complained and I also wasn’t sure the sex of the neighbour for while but I had read the brief and was keen to see how it panned out. It started to grip me once I knew a little more about Suzie and I was keen to know where Emily was.
Not knowing the fate of the person who most of the story circles around isn’t actually realised until the end so you really have to stay with it. The ending however did feel a bit of a let down after such a lot of build up, but it also left the book open for a sequel if that was possible or just to let your imagination write it’s own story.
Georgina gives us an insight into how we really don’t know those who surround us, how we may see/hear things that others do that annoys us but, that we should really stop and think before acting on impulse because they may have stuff going on we can’t see that is contributing to their actions.
I have never read Georgina Lees novels before but I will be looking at what else she has written.
