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Sunday, 22 January 2023

The Couple Upstairs by Ann Girdharry

Newly married couple Ellie and Rob Mitchell have bought a house together in Lewes where Rob grew up.  Ellie is a successful romantic novel writer and Rob is a cardiac surgeon.  Their new house has a self contained downstairs apartment.  As Ellie will be working from home they decide to let the apartment to a single person so that there will be someone else in the house.  

Sabrina is a single mum of 5 year old Maddy, so not the ideal person.  But when they meet her and find that she is trying to start a new life away from an abusive ex-husband, Ellie agrees that she can move in.  

Ellie tries to include Sabrina in her group of friends so that she is not isolated.  Ellie then becomes suspicious of Sabrina and doesn't think everything is quite as she has been led to believe.  Also some information about Rob and the death of his first wife comes to light.  All is not what it seems between the 3 of them as they all have secrets. 

This was a free Kindle book which I had downloaded.  I enjoyed the story, but towards the end one of the characters who is mentioned, but doesn't actually have a part in the story, starts off being called Olivier, then the name changes to Antoine, and then he goes back to being Olivier.  This was quite off-putting.  

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