The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell EPUB & PDF – eBook Details About
- Author: Lisa Jewell
- Genre: Domestic Thrillers, Women’s Crime Fiction
- Publish Date: 5 November 2019
- Size: 2 MB
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- Price: Free
Libby picks the letter up off the doormat. She turns it in her hands. It looks very formal;
the envelope is cream in colour, made of high-grade paper, and feels as though it might
even be lined with tissue. The postal frank says ‘Smithkin Rudd & Royle Solicitors
Chelsea Manor Street SW3’.
She takes the letter into the kitchen and sits it on the table while she fills the kettle and
puts a teabag in a mug. Libby is pretty sure she knows what’s in the envelope. She turned
twenty-five last month. She’s been subconsciously waiting for this envelope. But now it’s
here she’s not sure she can face opening it.
She picks up her phone and calls her mother.
‘Mum,’ she says. ‘It’s here. The letter from the trustees.’
She hears a silence at the other end of the line. She pictures her mum in her own
kitchen, a thousand miles away in Dénia: pristine white units, lime-green colour-
coordinated kitchen accessories, sliding glass doors on to a small terrace with a distant
view to the Mediterranean, her phone held to her ear in the crystal-studded case that she
refers to as her bling.
‘Oh,’ she says. ‘Right. Gosh. Have you opened it?’
‘No. Not yet. I’m just having a cup of tea first.’
‘Right,’ she says again. Then she says, ‘Shall I stay on the line? While you do it?’
‘Yes,’ says Libby. ‘Please.’
She feels a little breathless, as she sometimes does when she’s just about to stand up
and give a sales presentation at work, like she’s had a strong coffee. She takes the teabag
out of the mug and sits down. Her fingers caress the corner of the envelope and she
inhales.
‘OK,’ she says to her mother, ‘I’m doing it. I’m doing it right now.’
Her mum knows what’s in here. Or at least she has an idea, though she was never told
formally what was in the trust. It might, as she has always said, be a teapot and a ten-
pound note.
Libby clears her throat and slides her finger under the flap. She pulls out a sheet of thick
cream paper and scans it quickly:
To Miss Libby Louise Jones
As trustee of the Henry and Martina Lamb Trust created on 12 July 1977, I
propose to make the distribution from it to you described in the attached
schedule …
She puts down the covering letter and pulls out the accompanying paperwork.
‘Well?’ says her mum, breathlessly
‘Still reading,’ she replies.
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