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Lisa Jewell today, who is the internationally bestselling author of 17 and a half novels, including The New York Times bestseller, then she was gone, as well as I found you, The Girls in the Garden, and the House we grew up in. Her latest book, The Family Upstairs, is already a number one bestseller in the UK and is a book of the month club pick. Her novels have sold two million copies around the world.

She currently lives in London with her husband and two daughters. So welcome, Lisa. Thanks so much

for coming on moms and I have time to read books. Oh, thank you for inviting me. So can you

please start by telling listeners what your latest novel The Family Upstairs is about?

Okay, so the family upstairs, it's about, well, it's a story told from the point of

view of three different people, but the first person we meet is Libby, Libby Jones. And Libby is

25 years old, and she lives in a small town just outside London, and she sells designer kitchens

for a living. She's a very sensible girl. She's a very organised girl and she doesn't really

do spontaneity or surprising things. But she was adopted as a baby and she's known all her life

that on her 25th birthday, she'll find out what her birth parents have been holding in trust for her.

She's got no idea what it is. And we meet her in the first chapter,

opening a letter from the solicitors to tell her what this is, her bequest from her birth parents.

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