
If you enjoy a story with an emotional punch to the gut ending, then Seven Days of Us (2017) by Francesca Hornak might be for you! I picked this older book up because of the Christmastime setting and the interesting premise of a family in quarantine together, in a pre-COVID world. The Birch family, consisting of parents Emma and Andrew, and their daughters Olivia and Phoebe, must all be in quarantine together for a week after Olivia, a doctor working for an international aid organization, comes back home to England for Christmas from Liberia, which is dealing with an outbreak of the Haag virus. As in any family drama, secrets abound but will the fallout break or bring the Birch family closer than ever before? For fans of Flight by Lynn Steger Strong and Sandwich by Catherine Newman.