Her neighbour is missing, and she may be the only one who knows her well enough to find her...

Suzie didn't need to meet Emily to know everything about her. The floor between their two apartments is thin enough that Suzie can hear everything Emily does, smell everything she is cooking, and even listen to her conversations if she really wants to hear them. Suzie knows Emily's routine, even down to what types of meals she eats each night of the week. When Emily suddenly disappears and it seems like no one is looking for her, Suzie is determined to find out what happened. After all, no one knows the girl upstairs better than Suzie does.
I enjoyed this novel and felt the raw emotion seeping through the pages. I really empathized with the main characters and I was pretty invested in getting to the bottom of the mystery. I did find this novel a bit slow and repetitive at times, but the overall storyline was great. I would definitely read another novel by Georgina Lees in the future. I recommend The Girl Upstairs to anyone who enjoys reading suspense novels.

Suzie knows a lot about her upstairs neighbour Emily, without exchanging more than a few words, and most of those complaining about the noise. But when Emily’s flat suddenly goes quiet, nobody takes Suzie seriously when she thinks something bad has happened. So she decides to investigate herself.

The Girl Upstairs is a great read, with a bittersweet undertone. Both Suzie and Emily are lonely characters, who find it difficult to speak to each other, leading to frustrations. Suzie’s detective skills leave a lot to be desired, and at times were slightly unbelievable, especially her visit to Emily’s parents, but it’s still a good story. The best bit for me is that you don’t even know what happened to Emily, whether there is a crime to investigate, until the end, which made a refreshing change.

Great story, worth reading.

This book was crazy... the ending shocked me. I am still processing. This incredible thriller kept me on the edge of my seat until the last page. Great read!

It wasn't gripping, but it did keep my interest. It's a little slow in places and sometimes didn't seem believable. However it was still an enjoyable read.

The Girl Upstairs is unusual. It starts quite slowly with an inkling that something sinister might happen between Suzie and her upstairs neighbour, Emily, who incenses Suzie with her constant noise.

But that's a red herring. When Emily goes missing nobody really seems to care, but Suzie begins to investigate. She knows how it feels to worry for a missing loved one.

Having overheard Emily's conversations, Suzie is able to piece together some clues.

But she is not prepared for the shock of finding out who knows where Emily is.

Alongside the mystery, Suzie is also dealing with the loss of her husband Ben who disappeared after a night out.

Overall, I found this book somewhat difficult to connect with as I didn't really like Suzie that much, I found her draining and a bit unbelievable as a character.

I still found I wanted to finish the book to find out whodunit, but it didn't blow me away sadly.

Thank you to NetGalley, Georgina Lees and Harper Collins UK for the free e-book in exchange for an honest review.

I started off not really loving this one and worrying it would be way too similar to The Woman in the Window; but then it drastically veers off that course and I started to enjoy it a lot more. The main character got way more interesting and active in the story, which made you want to keep reading to find out what happened to Emily. I really enjoyed reading the chapters for Emily on what happened before she disappeared.

Thank you to HarperCollins UK and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book. Overall, I enjoyed this book. I appreciate that it was more of a slow burn of a story. I've seen others describe the plot as boring; it wasn't my favorite thriller but was thrilling and kept my attention. I found the ending to be a bit predictable but nonetheless enjoyable.

Thank you to NetGalley, HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter and Georgina Lees for an ARC in return for an honest review.

The Girl Upstairs - what a book! This story follows Suzie who lives in a downstairs flat. Emily lives upstairs and is noisy and appears to have a disregard for anyone else but herself. But one day the music and noise stops.

This is a fantastic psychological thriller - it is a little slow to start but then really ramps up. I initially thought I’d be left with unanswered questions but that certainly wasn’t the case. It is dark, creepy and gritty. I read it in one sitting as I was desperate to find out what had happened. Thoroughly recommend.

Unfortunately, it wasn't what I was expecting, I wanted creepy, thrilling, etc but what I actually got what was a detailed account of what Suzie Arlington the tenant above could hear or see her neighbour doing, ie having sex, sleeping and eating and the types of music she likes to listen to.
There was A LOT going on but at the same time, nothing to back it up, all written in Suzie's POV - not exactly thrilling, captivating and to be honest. When Emily goes missing, Suzie is convinced that she can find her, though she doesn't really know her that well at all.
I really struggled to finish it, feeling like it'd left it too long and trying to return to it was hard, it just wasn't for me.

With thanks to Netgalley to for the free arc in return for my review.

I was hoping for an easy fast-paced read that keeps you on the edge of your seat, but this was not that. It's slow, unrealistic, and has too quick of an ending for my liking. It doesn't help that I have read so many thrillers in my past, because this just didn't match up to them. It's not terrible, but not something I would recommend others to read if they want a good thriller.

I very nearly gave up on this but I am so pleased i didn’t….I wasn’t sure where it was going, it was a bit slow, but it picked up pace and intrigued me. A great read

This one has such a good premise but unfortunately falls a bit flat.
Suzie is actually a bit boring,too boring to be a compelling protagonist. Emily is a neighbour from hell so I don't know why would anyone be so obsessed with her. I know I wouldn't.
I enjoyed the ending even though the final twist was not exactly surprising, as it was totally out of the blue.

From the start, I just knew that this would be an absorbing read. The protagonist, Suzie Arlington is a sad and lonely woman of thirty-five. She works ‘in marketing‘ and owns the ground floor flat of a house in Islington, London. She longs to return to her family home in Hove, Sussex. However, her attachment to the memories of her husband Ben, in the flat where she lives, override her longing for home.

Still grieving the loss of her husband, she refuses to enter her bedroom since he left two years ago. She sleeps on the sofa, or in a chair in her living room. SHE IS NOT COPING! She isn’t looking after herself and she seems absolutely overwhelmed by the sensory overload that is London life. The noise, the smells, the light, the people. This is exacerbated by her upstairs neighbour Emily, who selfishly plays her music too loud, and generally seems to make as much noise as is physically possible. This in a house where sound travels effortlessly so that everything from opening drawers to going to the bathroom is clearly audible.

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.

When I found out what happened to Emily at the end, I was surprised (though perhaps I shouldn’t have been?) Suzie’s story ended in a most satisfactory way.

The writing kept me engaged throughout the book. I could easily visualize the house, the flats, and the occupants. The setting was a major force in the narrative. With overriding themes of grief, loss, and loneliness, this book cast a lingering look at lives of single women in the big city.

This is a debut psychological thriller and one which I highly recommend. Georgina Lees is a talented author, and I plan to keep an eye out for her future titles.

This took me a couple of chapters to get into, but once I did, Wow! The main character started as very unlikeable but then once you realise the back-story, its actually quite sad. This book covers a whole load of emotions, both chilling and uplifting. A great story

Suzie wants Emily gone until Emily actually is.

“The Girl Upstairs” unfolds in the first-person present-tense narrative of Suzie Arlington. The title implies that the book is about “the girl upstairs,” but it is really about Susie. Her conversations have a causal and friendly tone; she poses questions with no answers, and she makes little comments without context. She admits that “you were right,” and that she is “thinking about you.” However, just who is this mysterious person with whom she carries on one-sided conversations? The reader or someone else?

Suzie heard Emily Williams, the girl who lives upstairs, before she even met her. They are two people whose lives are connected by circumstances. Theirs is not a happy relationship, what with Suzie hearing everything, smelling everything, and complaining about everything Emily does. Emily has a one-year lease, but Suzie wants her gone. That is, until Emily is actually gone, disappeared, vanished without a trace. Now, Suzie is obsessed with finding Emily and with uncovering her secrets; the one once despised now becomes the one urgently hunted.

Suzie controls the story even though she does not have the title. She is a complex character with problems of her own that she must resolve even as she methodically searches for Emily. She asks the questions that no one answers; she searches when no one else will; she makes sense of puzzle pieces that do not seem to fit, and she recognizes the lies that people tell her. In the midst of this trauma, she also finds her new self.

I received a review copy of “The Girl Upstairs” from Georgina Lees, HarperCollins, and One More Chapter. The plot is multifaceted with layer upon layer of complications, secrecy, and surprises. Suzie is frozen in time, but the darkness that she shares with Emily gives her the strength to find answers and to move on herself.

Do you know your neighbour? We all like to think we do but do we really.
This book shows how lonely life in a big city can be. Is Emily dead or has she run away from life's pressures?

This book was more of a slow moving character examination than a psychological thriller, however I did find it quite enjoyable. The back story of the main characters does leave a lot of questions though which has influenced my rating.

This was a tough one! I was creeped out by how much the neighbors heard of each other! Suzie had owned her downstairs flat for 5 years while the upstairs is rented out to various people over the years! Suzie hears them coming and going, music, footsteps and other things! Couldn’t she just drown it out with music or tv of her own instead of dwelling on it? Suzie makes Emily out to be the worst neighbor but I think her own depression and issues exacerbated the problem.
When Emily goes missing, Suzie, who from all accounts couldn’t stand her, becomes obsessed with finding out what happen to her! Lots of different story lines with no real meeting in the end!
Thank you netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

A book that will suck you in from the very beginning. Suzie can hear every noise of her neighbor's routine until one day it goes quiet. Suzie now thinks that it is up to her solve the disappearance of her upstairs neighbor. Great story telling.

I love a slow burn mystery but this book was simply boring. It was written in such an anti-climactic way that nothing felt important and the characters also weren't believable in terms of why they would do certain things, other than to drive the plot along. I would just say there are far better options out there if you're wanting to read a slow burn mystery,