{"id":280,"date":"2022-08-25T11:28:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T01:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2022-08-25T11:28:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T01:28:15","slug":"the-girl-upstairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"The Girl Upstairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/21597150.Georgina_Lees\">Georgina Lees<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>December 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How well do you know your neighbour?<br>Would you trust them with your life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I heard Emily before I saw her. The harsh smack of heels against cheap wooden floorboards. The loud phone calls. The incessant music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now she\u2019s gone missing, and I\u2019m the only one who can find her. The only one who can save her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I know her best, and I heard everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Girl Upstairs is a spine-tingling psychological thriller of grief and obsession that explores how lonely London can be and how sometimes it\u2019s our neighbours who see us most, who know us best\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not knowing the fate of the person who most of the story circles around isn&#8217;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&#8217;s own story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgina gives us an insight into how we really don&#8217;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&#8217;t see that is contributing to their actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have never read Georgina Lees novels before but I will be looking at what else she has written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgina Lees 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}