Take your pick from our best new reads of the week with effort from Lisa Jewell - and also see what our Mirror Book Club readers think of our latest picks...
The Family Upstairs
Lisa Jewell
Libby is stunned to learn she has inherited a grand London townhouse, held in trust since her birth parents died there in a suicide pact 25 years ago.
Libby, who was adopted as a baby, also discovers she has an older brother and sister, Henry and Lucy.
Nobody knows what happened to them, but the reader learns about their childhood, where creepy lodgers gradually took control and turned their home into a prison.
Back in the present, Henry and Lucy know their baby sister has inherited the house – and slowly but surely, they are making their way back there.
With its eerie, abandoned home and damaged characters, you’ll need a will of iron to put this all-consuming read down before the end.
BY CHARLOTTE HEATHCOTE
Century, £12.99
Ask Again, Yes
Mary Beth Keane
This story of two families riven by a shocking tragedy is one of the most exceptional novels of the summer.
After the Stanhopes’ only child and the Gleesons’ youngest daughter, both teenagers, sneak out to meet, a split second of violence divides the families.
But in this powerful novel, which has the makings of a future classic, they find it’s harder than expected to sever ties.
BY EMMA LEE-POTTER
Michael Joseph, £14.99
A Treachery Of Spies
Manda Scott
In 1940, a woman goes on a mission for the Special Operations Executive which she hopes will lead to the death of an arch enemy. In the present, an old woman is found with her tongue cut out – the punishment for betraying the Resistance.
Scott’s magnificent novel captures abominable times and the courage required to live in them.
BY JAKE KERRIDGE
Corgi, £8.99
Is There Still Sex In The City?
By Candace Bushnell
After her divorce, the Sex And The City author left Manhattan for a farmhouse. But here she returns to New York, and this memoir documents a group
of female friends, mostly 50-something divorcees, and their dating exploits. An entertaining, no-holds-barred lowdown on the men they encounter and ageing in a youth-obsessed society.
BY EMMA LEE-POTTER
Little, Brown, £16.99
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When you’ve read it, we’d love you to join our Facebook group ( facebook.com/groups/mirrorbookclub ) and tell us what you thought, good or bad. We’d also love to know what else you’re reading – and which books we should pick for the Mirror Book Club in future…
Current Mirror Book Club read: nto The Water by Paula Hawkins
