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Berkley
October 2017
On Sale: October 17, 2017
Featuring: Emma; Andrew
368 pages
ISBN: 045148875X
EAN: 9780451488756
Kindle: B01MSAMY8Y
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Contemporary | Humor | Holiday
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... Itโs Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrewโs elder daughterโwho is usually off saving the worldโwill 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, sheโs been told she must stay in quarantine for a weekโฆand so too should her family. For the next seven days, the Birches are locked down, cut off from the rest of humanityโand even decent Wi-Fiโand forced into each otherโs 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 whoโs about to arriveโฆ
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