The Upstairs Room

Eleanor, Richard and their two young daughters recently stretched themselves to the limit to buy their dream home, a four-bedroom Victorian townhouse in East London. But the cracks are already starting to show.

Eleanor is unnerved by the eerie atmosphere in the house and becomes convinced it is making her ill. Whilst Richard remains preoccupied with Zoe, their mercurial 27-year-old lodger, Eleanor becomes determined to unravel the mystery of the house's previous owners - including Emily, whose name is written hundreds of times on the walls of the upstairs room.


Genre: Literary Fiction

"An incredible read. Clever, chilling, I couldn't put it down." - Joanna Cannon

"A very impressive debut. The story is played out in an unsettling narrative that makes you want to read on to the end." - Michael Frayn

"The Upstairs Room is the real thing. Frightening and clever and full of atmosphere." - Susan Hill

"A brilliantly observed and utterly unnerving ghost story of contemporary feminism and the housing crisis. Murray-Browne turns the screws so cleverly that the moment you long to break the novel's breathless grip is also the moment you recognize that its world is actually your own." - Anna Smaill