Over the course of the book we meet the Birch family: Father Andrew who is a restaurant critic and who has just received an email from the son he never knew, mother Emily who is keeping her recent cancer diagnosis a secret, oldest daughter Olivia who under no circumstances can let anyone know how close she became to another doctor who is now suffering from the dreaded virus, and youngest daughter Phoebe who has recently become engaged after a six-year courtship and is obsessed with planning her wedding.
Over the week of the quarantine, we come to know all of the Birches in all their good and bad. Often not likable, they are still human in their foibles and worth rooting for. If occasionally I wanted to crack their heads together, there were other times when I cheered them on and was glad of their gradual steps back to being a family.
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I listened to the audiobook and it was great! Loved the book.
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