Germantown Novel Views Book Club - In Person

"The Family Upstairs" by Lisa Jewell

Join the Germantown Novel Views Book Club to discuss the "The Family Upstairs" by Lisa Jewell.

The Novel Views Book Club will meet in Group Study Room 5, located on the lower level of the library, in the Children's Room 

Join the Germantown Novel Views Book Club to discuss the "The Family Upstiars" by Lisa Jewell.

"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's life is about to change. But what she can't possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well--and she is on a collision course to meet them. Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone."-- MCPL Catalogue.

Print copies may be available at the Germantown Library after September 3, 2025.

Available on Overdrive/Libby as an eBook.  and as an Audio ebook. 

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Questions about this program? Contact the branch at 240-777-0110

Accommodation Requests

People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

GEN 1.0 10/27/2021

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