Seven Days of Us

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A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays...

It€s Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew€s elder daughter€"who is usually off saving the world€"will be joining them at Weyfield Hall, their aging country estate. But Olivia, a doctor, is only coming home because she has to. Having just returned from treating an epidemic abroad, she€s been told she must stay in quarantine for a week€¦and so too should her family.
 
For the next seven days, the Birches are locked down, cut off from the rest of humanity€"and even decent Wi-Fi€"and forced into each other€s orbits. Younger, unabashedly frivolous daughter Phoebe is fixated on her upcoming wedding, while Olivia deals with the culture shock of being immersed in first-world problems.
 
As Andrew sequesters himself in his study writing scathing restaurant reviews and remembering his glory days as a war correspondent, Emma hides a secret that will turn the whole family upside down.  
 
In close proximity, not much can stay hidden for long, and as revelations and long-held tensions come to light, nothing is more shocking than the unexpected guest who€s about to arrive€¦


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