How long does it take to read The Family Upstairs?
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell takes about 8 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2019. 464 pages, about 127,600 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Libby Jones turns twenty-five and learns that a large Chelsea townhouse in London now belongs to her. Adopted as a baby, she knows almost nothing about her origins, then finds out she was discovered alive in that very house after three adults were found dead. Her birth parents are among them, and her two older siblings vanished at the time. Libby starts digging into the house's past with a journalist who covered the case. Meanwhile, her sister Lucy, a homeless musician in southern France, hears of the inheritance, while flashbacks revisit the mansion between 1988 and 1994.
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Subjects: London (england), fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, family life, general, Family secrets, Fiction
