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Georgina Lees studied creative writing and film at university and has since pursued a career in video-games journalism, covering some of the most popular games in the world. Her psychological thrillers are inspired by her surroundings, from the congested London streets to the raw English countryside. She can be found playing games, writing stories, and reading anything from fantasy to crime fiction. She warns her landlord Mike and Mike informs Emily’s parents. It seems like she has lost her job. There’s a chance she ghosted her parents. She did it before. She’s a portrait of little erratic, irresponsible and unpredictable young woman. The voices stop, I hear movement off the sofa and Emily whisper, ‘I don’t know, shall I answer it?’ I slam my fist into the door again. Yes, you should answer it. The door opens slowly and Emily’s small face peers around. She sees me and a flash of recognition and concern crosses her features. She furrows her eyebrows and opens the door wider. Suzie lives in a downstairs flat in London – depressed, lonely, and extremely frustrated with her noisy upstairs neighbor Emily. The floors are thin, and Suzie can hear EVERYTHING – Emily’s music, her phone conversations, even her bathroom habits. So when Emily’s flat suddenly goes quiet, Suzie knows there’s something wrong.
Seeing Suzie filed a complaint against her neighbor for excessive noise, wouldn’t you be relieved that she’s missing? In Suzie’s opinion, no one seems to care enough about Emily’s disappearance – not her parents, not her coworkers, not even the police – so Suzie is determined to get to the bottom of things. At first, I couldn’t understand why Suzie would care so much about finding a neighbor she was so irritated by, but as the story evolves, Suzie’s motivations are revealed.But, WHY would she bother? She has filed a formal complaint against her neighbor for excessive noise and should have simply been relieved if she had moved out. Joe Nuthin’s Guide to Life” by Helen Fisher – Book Review @RandomTTours #BlogTour #BookReview @simonschusterUK #JoeNuthinsGuideToLife @HFisherAuthor November 20, 2023 When Emily disappears, no one seems as upset about it as Suzie is. Her parents write it off as she has done this before, her job had let her go, the detectives think she's hiding out with friends but Suzie absolutely believes something is wrong and won't let it go. But she soon figures out that by looking for Emily she has put herself in real danger. Can she help Emily or is Suzie just a woman with too many problems who needs real help herself? When I moved to London, my cousin had told me that ‘everyone in London is invisible’, but as I turn I see the unapologetic faces staring at my blotchy face. I drop my bag and the contents spill onto the shop floor. No one moves to help, they just watch. I don’t feel invisible at all. Neighbour thrillers’ featuring a lonely protagonist, often disengaged from mainstream society, who becomes obsessed with the person next door, is a rapidly growing thriller segment, with novels by Sabine Durrant, Louise Candlish, A.J. Finn and Paula Hawkins having set the bar high. Georgina Lees adds to this her own, very promising thriller. Her protagonist is Suzie, a young widow in London who is still grieving. She becomes first upset and then increasingly upset with her upstairs neighbour Emily, a vivacious but inconsiderate student. When Emily goes missing, however, only Suzie can reconstruct what happened and who can find Emily. After all, Suzie has heard, read and seen everything there is to know about Emily….
She won’t take it personally, but she’ll worry. I look up. I need for her not to come here. It will break me if she does, noise I don’t need, can’t fit in right now. I type again, Suzie is a young woman, living alone in a ground floor flat in Islington, North London. She's obviously going through a hard time, although, it's not clear why? However, she's in a bad way and is not happy with the issues she experiences with her various neighbours who rent the flat above. Then the latest tenant disappears. The book has a sad, but immensely creepy vibe. Sad because both women seemed so lonely, yet they were immersed in a highly populated urban center. They might have been friends if they could have looked past their differences. One needed quiet, the other needed noise to stave off her loneliness. Creepy because Suzie had an aura of 'unreliable narrator' about her... For the first half of the book I was all the time wondering if she was a narrator that I could trust. The Girl Upstairs is a spine-tingling psychological thriller of grief and obsession that explores how lonely London can be and how sometimes it’s our neighbours who see us most, who know us best… Underneath” by Anne Goodwin – Book Review #NovNov23 #novella @inspiredquill #Underneath#BookReview November 22, 2023The book has a sad, but immensely creepy vibe. Sad because both women seemed so lonely, yet they were immersed in a highly populated urban center. They might have been friends if they could have looked past their differences. One needed quiet, the other needed noise to stave off her loneliness. Creepy because Suzie had an aura of ‘ unreliable narrator‘ about her… For the first half of the book I was all the time wondering if she was a narrator that I could trust. Book Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller
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