Seven Days of Us

A family canΓÇÖt escape their secrets when theyΓÇÖre forced to spend a week in quarantine in this ΓÇ£sharply funnyΓÇ¥ (People) novelΓÇöan Indie Next and #1 Library Reads Pick! 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 daughterΓÇöwho is usually off saving the worldΓÇöwill be joining them at Weyfield Hall. But Oliviaa doctoris only coming home because she has to. She’s just returned from treating an epidemic abroad and has been told she must stay in quarantine for a week…and so too should her family. For the next seven daysthe Birches are locked downcut off from the rest of humanityand forced into each other’s orbits. Youngerunabashedly frivolous daughter Phoebe is fixated on her upcoming weddingwhile Olivia deals with the culture shock of first-world problems. As Andrew sequesters himself in his study writing scathing restaurant reviews and remembering his glory days as a war correspondentEmma hides a secret that will turn the whole family upside down. In close proximitynot much can stay hidden for longand as revelations and long-held tensions come to lightnothing is more shocking than the unexpected guest who’s about to arrive….