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Book length - 376 pages Publisher - Piatkus Worldwide - www.bookdepository.com Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com I want to thank Beth from www.littlebrown.co.uk for the opportunity to take part in this blog tour and for providing me with a copy of this book for review. Beth was also kind enough to provide an extra copy of this special book for one lucky reader so don't forget to check out the giveaway further down the page! ABOUT THIS BOOK 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… MY REVIEW SEVEN DAYS OF US by Francesca Hornak is an emotional and engrossing story of messy family relationships and I was hooked from the very first page. It is the first Christmas that the Birch family are all spending together in their country home in many years. Emma is excited to have her daughters together for once and is determined to make this Christmas as perfect as she can even if it means hiding a secret from everyone. Andrew loves his daughters but Phoebe has always been his favourite as he has always struggled to connect with Olivia but when an email threatens to shatter everyone's opinion of him will he face it head on or hide? Phoebe is newly engaged and just wants everything to be perfect and she doesn't need her do-gooder sister raining on her parade all over the festive season. Olivia is just back from treating Haag in Liberia and must endure the one week quarantine at home with her family whom she feels no connection with. Plus she has to be away from the love of her life - a relationship that goes against all of the rules. How will she survive? And when their doorbell rings, a stranger may just change each of their lives forever. Compelling and completely unputdownable, SEVEN DAYS OF US by Francesca Hornak is a unique gem that packs an emotional punch. There is so much depth and history to these characters and Olivia and Emma really shone for me in this book. The setting is perfect and there was nothing that didn't work for me. There is tragedy, sadness, new beginnings and so much more nestled among the pages of SEVEN DAYS OF US and the message that no matter how complicated and messy family life can be, family will always be family even if they can get lost along the way. SEVEN DAYS OF US by Francesca Hornak is a must-read for contemporary fiction fans and it is definitely on my list of top books for 2018! AUTHOR BIO Francesca Hornak is a British author, journalist and former columnist for the Sunday Times. Her debut novel Seven Days Of Us will be published by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in October 2017. Little Island Productions has pre-empted TV rights to the book. Francesca's work has appeared in newspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Metro, Elle, Grazia, Stylist, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Red. She is the author of two nonfiction books, History of the World in 100 Modern Objects: Middle Class Stuff (and Nonsense) and Worry with Mother: 101 Neuroses for the Modern Mama. For more information: Twitter - twitter.com/FrancescaHornak GIVEAWAY One lucky reader has a chance to win a paperback copy of Seven Days Of Us by Francesca Hornak courtesy of Little Brown UK and all you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post or on my pinned tweet on Twitter. That's it! So what are you waiting for??? The winner will be randomly selected on Sunday 16th December 2018. Good luck.
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Julie Curtis
11/12/2018 04:21:56 pm
Love the sound of this book. Thank you for the review.
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