The Woman Downstairs tells the story of two women living in the same block of flats.. after a body is found downstairs their stories come together to reveal a shocking twist!

You need to suspend belief with this story but once you do it’s one heck of a read! There’s a bit of social media comments / posts but this was done much better than other books in the same genre. The inner voices of Sarah and Laura didn’t have enough differences for me and I did confused at parts but I still found this an enjoyable, dark read.

A body is found dead in a block of flats, no one had missed them for two years. We follow Sarah and Laura as the devastating truth of what happened is revealed.
What an intriguing and heartbreaking book. The mystery is carefully woven throughout and kept me interested all the way through. But aside from that, the two main characters felt very real and I connected with them so much, that I would have been happy to just follow the thread of their lives indefinitely.
4.5/5 stars.

I much preferred the first half of the book,which felt like a slow reveal of how you could find a body in a flat that nobody had missed for two years.
How does NOBODY notice when a person goes missing??
The second bit in comparison seemed a whole lot of working out the lies,suspecting everyone but knowing exactly where the story was going.
It kept me engaged for a few hours.

This story is told by two people. Sarah who is in the present day, a single mother of Alex who is studying journalism and Laura who is telling the story two years previously. Both live in the same block of flats.

When a body is found in one of the flats Sarah is determined to find out more.

Even though each chapter says who it is telling the story, it can get a bit confusing, especially when there is dialogue. That apart, it made for an engaging read. Not an edge of your seat read by any means and there were lots of loose ends that weren't tidied up. There were also too many coincidences going on.

It seems to be an in thing at the moment to use social media content, doesn't really work that well, just adds to the confusion.

Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for my ARC in return for an honest review.

“Can you ever really know your neighbours?”
Sarah lives with her son in a block of flats. She is a journalist student and also works at the local cafe to help pay the bills. On going out early one morning she finds the police at the flat below hers- they have found a body which has apparently been there for at least a couple of years. She thought the flat was empty. No one really knows who lived there or whom the body may be. She picks up a piece of mail which has blown from the flat and finds a name. Could this be the deceased person and why has no one missed them in all that time? Laura lived with her father until he recently died. She has to find a new job as his savings won’t go very far. Her mother left several years ago and Laura hasn’t been out of the house for a long time herself. We know she has some sort of secret but not quite what. Oooh! This got me enveloped early on and kept me within its pages. I liked the tenacity of Sarah and felt for the naivety of Laura. A cleverly thought out plot and wonderful characters. A gripping read.
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