'This entertaining look at motherhood and memory will resonate with many.The Family Upstairs tells the stories of three characters: Libby, Lucy, and Henry. McAllister succeeds in making us care, and the result is a tour de force.' - The Guardian 'Another ingeniously plotted genre-bender.

The trigger for this crime-and you don't have a choice but to find it. and it is the day before yesterday.Įvery morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. You only know your son is now in custody, his future shattered. You can't believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's walking toward a man, and he's armed. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. Exceptional.' -Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the Endįrom UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him, deemed 'clever, original, and so addictive it should come with a warning' by Alice Feeney, bestselling author of Rock Paper ScissorsĬan you stop a murder after it's already happened? Wrong Place, Wrong Time is impossibly clever, daringly original and heart-rending. 'A work of such genius it leaves you in awe. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author It's the right place and the right time.' -A. 'Daring, inventive, exhilarating, twisted. 'A brilliantly genre-bending, mind-twisting answer to the question How far would you go to save your child?' -Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author The stakes are so high because they're so meaningful.' -Marin Keyes, internationally bestselling author But it's much more than that the love Jen has for her son and her husband is beautiful. The plot is astonishing-original and ingenious. One of the best books I've ever read.' -Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author 'It's perfection, every word, every moment. INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

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