It all starts with a letter. Libby Jones is an ordinary woman living in an ordinary life. Until one night she returns home to a letter one she has been waiting for a letter that will reveal her birth parents. If that was not life-altering enough, the letter also tells libby that she has now inherited her parents now-abandoned mansion located in a well-to-do London neighbourhood.

Across an a ocean, a woman who has been playing the violin on the streets to feed her children receives a text messages: the baby turned 25. By claiming her inheritance Libby has unknowingly put herself on the radar of a group of individuals that are somehow connected to her birth parents determined to find her.

The novel takes us between Libby’s life in London to our mysterious woman oversees and the history of the house that has been inherited by Libby.

Through all the twists and turns and shocking reveals The Family Upstairs has a question running through it: can you ever really be free of your past?