The novel for every woman who has tried to track down the boyfriend she fell in love with at age 20, and wondered what her life would have been like if only they had stayed together.
The novel for every woman who has tried to track down the boyfriend she fell in love with at age 20, and wondered what her life would have been like if only they had stayed together.
Five months after Mel told her husband to leave, a ghost moved in upstairs.
A young man who reminds her, with eerie intensity, of a past lover, someone who changed Mel's life and then vanished.
When the man's travelling girlfriend joins him, Mel's obsession with the couple upstairs builds and the boundaries between the two homes begin to blur, with devastating consequences.
The Couple Upstairs is about one strange summer of dazzling, curdling infatuation. Writing with both a light touch and vivid intensity, Holly Wainwright explores love, regret, whether you can stop history repeating, and whether or not you should.
Holly Wainwright is a writer, editor and broadcaster who lives on the south coast of New South Wales with her partner and their young family. She's an Executive Editor at women's media company Mamamia. The Couple Upstairs is her fourth novel.
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