Lucy took Phin to the hospital and left the baby behind. Henry was planning to go back to kill him, but Phin was gone when he made it back to the room. Henry had left Phin locked in his room because he was mad that he had impregnated Lucy (he was in love with Phin). Henry staged the dead adults to look like a cult group suicide. Henry overdosed the adults and killed them all, except for Birdie who was struck on the head during a struggle (she also died). Henry was supposed to use his herbs to put the adults to sleep while they ran away to find Clemency’s mom. Henry and Clemency made a plan to escape and rescue the baby. Lucy had been sleeping with Phin and David at the same time. He was sleeping with all the adult women in the house, but Lucy was only 14. David and Birdie (another vagrant, but not David’s wife) imposed rules on all the other residents of 16 Cheyne Walk, essentially forbidding the others from leaving.ĭavid had raped Lucy. David Thompson was their charismatic leader. Along the way, Martina Lamb (the mother) brought in some vagrants, and the house was turned into a small cult/commune. Originally just the Lamb family lived at 16 Cheyne Walk. “The Baby”, aka Libby/Serenity The Family Upstairs Spoilers: The Thompsen family, including children Phineas and Clemency

The Lamb family, including children Henry and Lucyīirdie and Justin, the first adults to move into the Lamb house And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well-and she is on a collision course to meet them. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. This is a spoiler post! Do not read on unless you have already read The Family Upstairs or want to be spoiled.

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell