What a cute idea – a family forced into a seven-day isolation over Christmas. How novel! What an unexpected scenario! I wonder what hijinks will unfold as a family is thrust together in isolation for a whole week! Oh wait. Literally everyone has lived this experience in 2020 and it is neither cute nor novel nor quaint. Oh dear. I feel terrible for Hornak, the author of The Seven Days of Us. She published this little tale in 2017, before the ‘rona hit. What are […]

Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Seven Days of Us” is a family drama taking place over…you guessed it…seven days. Emma and Andrew Birch are landed gentry who go to Emma’s ancestral home (apparently it is a small country home, but I question the term “small”) for Christmas each year. This year is special because Olivia, the eldest Birch daughter, is coming home from being stationed in West Africa to fight the Hague virus aka Ebola. They all […]