02346cam a2200349 i 4500 1710979758 TxAuBib 20171017120000.0 170623s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017022801 9780451488756 045148875X DLC eng DLC rda TxAuBib rda Hornak, Francesca, author. Seven days of us : a novel / Francesca Hornak. First edition. New York : Berkley, 2017. pages ; cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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..."-- Provided by publisher. 20171017. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Families Fiction. FICTION / Family Life. FICTION / Contemporary Women. FICTION / Humorous. Domestic fiction. Humorous fiction.