Seven Days of Us cover art

Seven Days of Us

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Seven Days of Us

By: Francesca Hornak
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

 The funny, sharply observed and life-affirming Radio 2 Book Club pick.
'Hilarious and touching' DAILY MAIL

'Warm, humane, funny and sad . . . Absolute pleasure reading' MARIAN KEYES

'Keenly observed and utterly believeable' PANDORA SYKES

'Hilariously funny' ROSAMUND LUPTON
__________________________________________

It's the holidays, and the Birch family is gathering for the first time in years.

Olivia, the eldest daughter, has returned from treating an epidemic abroad and must go into quarantine for seven days. Her mother has decided it's the perfect opportunity to spend some 'special time' together. Her youngest sister wholeheartedly disagrees. Her father isn't allowed an opinion.

When no one can leave the house and no one can enter, quaratine for the Birches feels like an eternity.

Especially when they're all harbouring secrets. One of which is about to come knocking at their door...
__________________________________________

'Absorbing, insightful and immensely enjoyable' LAURA BARNETT

'One of the best family dramas you'll ever read' BEST

'I LOVED [it] . . . has all the makings of your classic rom-com, with characters that are both remarkable yet wonderfully relatable' THE UNMUMSY MUM

'Sharply observed by Hornak's satirical eye' GLAMOUR

'One of the best books of the year' HELLO!

'Expertly captures the joys and the tensions of spending any time with those who know you best. It thoroughly deserves to be this year's big Christmas hit' THE I©2017 Francesca Hornak (P)2017 Hachette Audio UK Coming of Age Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Holidays Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Heartfelt Winter Christmas

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Consequence of Love cover art
The Girlfriend cover art
Heathcliff Lennox - France 1918 cover art
One Perfect Summer cover art
Under the Southern Sky cover art
The Girl in the Corner cover art
The Christmas Invitation cover art
Worth Trying cover art
After the Outbreak cover art
You're Mine cover art
The Promise cover art
The Fall of Lord Drayson cover art
Between Sisters cover art
The Queen of New Beginnings cover art
Postcards from a Stranger cover art
Who'd Have Thought cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
An entertaining Christmas read. Particularly stirring for Christmas 2020 with quarantine and being maybe just a bit too close to family.
Would recommend for a warm cosy easy read

Entertaining

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I am reading this book for my book club. Its been a lovely mix of characters, family challenges, realisations and good old fashioned story telling.

thoughtful fun with a lovely mix of characters

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I found the book moving on many levels, particularly as I volunteer in Africa myself. Some of the story was A BIT contrived......surely as a doctor Olivia must have known she was pregnant for instance. I'm passing it on to friends.

so relevant to today and CV19

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I really enjoyed listening to this book. I wonder if perhaps those who didn’t like it, wrongly expected a lighthearted Christmas tale. This is an original story of a family thrust together for a sustained period over Christmas. Personal issues abound. Each of the characters are well drawn and engaging. I have occasionally found Jilly Bond unsuitable as a narrator, but I think she is perfect for this book and she does a great job.

I loved it!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Jilly's performance is second to none - don't think I have ever enjoyed an actor's reading of an Audible book more. Loved the story and how all the characters changed. Also loved format of book with different characters' points of view being in each chapter. Found I was laughing out loud at the sarcastic and wry parts. Well done, Francesca - this is an excellent debut.

Fabulous Story and Best Performance Ever

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is just a lovely listen. A book that doesn't require thought. I just really enjoyed this book.

sweet

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I enjoyed the story but the narrating style detracted from my enjoyment of the book. Dubious accents and the characters of Emma and Phoebe sounded like preschool children. What a shame!

Great story but hard on the ears

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book is great if you're a nosy sort of person, like me, and like to get inside the heads of everyone involved. I found it deeply engaging and a really fun listen, by turns tense, cringe, funny and sad. Thank you so much Francesca Hornak - please write more! :)

Wonderful peer into the inner workings of a family

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This truly was a fantastic story. A story of a family going through the hardships of accepting one another as they are, the ups and downs; that they are 'simply stuck with each other' and building upon that. Its heartwarming and thoroughly well written, pulling you in with delicious descriptive text making it an easy listen.
Highly recommend!

A Fantastic Story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I enjoyed this book. The writing is intelligent and original and accessible. The characters are credible and likeable. The story is fresh though shockingly recognisable after this year of lockdowns. The reader kept a good pace and a lively tone, though some of the male characters were read with irritating , hardly believable voices. I’m glad I chose this book.

So topical!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews