From publisher's website: "Beautifully written and impossibly to put down, The Upstairs Room is a startling contemporary ghost story and a novel about memory, loneliness, desire and love - the things that haunt us all." From Goodreads: "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 twenty-seven-year-old lodger, Eleanor becomes determined to unravel the mystery of the houses previous ownersincluding Emily, whose name is written hundreds of times on the walls of the upstairs room.". The book has a dedication from the author on the title page. It has not been possible to verify the signature, but it is believed to be authentic. The dust jacket is in Good conditi