A review by smalltownbookmom
The Upstairs House by Julia Fine

4.0

REALLY good look at the challenges and struggles many women experience in the early postpartum days of new motherhood! Plus an extra bonus “ghostly” element as Megan starts to have visions of children’s author, Margaret Brown Wise (the subject of her PhD dissertation). I enjoyed learning so much about Wise’s life and her affair with another woman. A great fictionalized depiction of a woman many don’t know much about. For fans of Possession or Truths I never told you. Julia Fine does an amazing job illustrating the guilt, doubts and fears of new motherhood and I related to the main character so much but some of the ghostly elements got a little too unbelievable.

CW: missing/kidnapped child, harm to a child, postpartum depression