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The Family Remains

The #1 bestselling thriller from the author of The Family Upstairs

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The Family Remains

By: Lisa Jewell
Narrated by: Eleanor Tomlinson, Dominic Thorburn, Bea Holland, Hugh Quarshie, Josh Dylan, Thomas Judd
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**Loved THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS? Find out what happened next ...**

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 ...

PREPARE TO BE HOOKED.

'Enthralling' RUTH WARE
'Gripping' OLIVIA COLMAN
'Engrossing' IAN RANKIN
'Twisty' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'Excellent' GUARDIAN
'Stupendous' RUTH JONES
'Brilliant' SARAH PINBOROUGH
'Unputdownable' C.L. TAYLOR

© Lisa Jewell 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Really enjoyed this, excellent sequel!!
I don’t want to give too much away, but as always with Lisa’s books… expect the unexpected.

Fabulous

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Wasn’t sure about a sequel but it’s brilliant, we’ll written, beautifully performed and over far too soon!

A fabulous sequel or stand alone

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Good plot and well orated. I recommend this book and look forward to checking out others by the author.

Great story!

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I enjoyed this very much. as it's a while since I read the first one I was glad of the little reminders throughout the book.
Really liked the narrator's
The only thing that let it down for me was one unanswered question near the end of the book which tied it all up.
Without giving away the story, (but might be a spoiler!) why did Justin do what he did? Did I miss something? There didn't seem to be a clear reason other than he just wanted to admit to it.....

Great sequel

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I really enjoyed this follow up having just finished the first book and loved it. Reading the other reviews I was expecting it to lost its way but I thought over all it was really good, well worth a listen. Of course it’s all a bit far fetched, but I loved the tying up of everything. I didn’t get confused with the jumping around of time lines at all, it made total sense to me but maybe because I was so close to having finished the first book. The police man character was the only one I found a bit under developed, it was like either he’s a main character with some depth or he’s not, it felt a bit in between. Otherwise, really enjoyed it.

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