Claire Messud

a novel

The woman upstairs

b.andherbooks

This lady sure is angry. Now that I know why, I'm slightly indifferent.

Andrea Badgley

Holy shizzle. This is one of the most beautifully crafted, carefully constructed, exquisitely written books I've read in a long time. And I promise Messud doesn't use as many adverbs as I just did. I want to read everything she has written after reading this book.

Sarah Erle

Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her art, which she makes alone, unseen. One day Reza Shahid appears in her classroom: eight years old, a perfect, beautiful boy. Reza's father has a fellowship at Harvard and his mother is a glamorous and successful installation artist. Nora is admitted into their charmed circle, and everything is transformed. Or so she believes. Liberation from her old life is not quite what it seems, and she is about to suffer a betrayal more monstrous than anything she could have imagined.

The Woman Upstairs

Sara Sunshine

azliana aziz

Relegated to the status of schoolteacher after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his mother's ambition leads to betrayal.

The woman upstairs a novel

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