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The Seven Day Switch: A Novel by [Kelly Harms]

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Two moms as opposite as a Happy Meal and a quinoa bowl. What a difference a week makes in a heartfelt, laugh-out-loud novel by the Washington Post bestselling author of The Overdue Life of Amy Byler.

Celeste Mason is the Pinterest stay-at-home supermom of other mothers’ nightmares. Despite her all-organic, SunButter-loving, free-range kids, her immaculate home, and her volunteering awards, she still has time to relax with a nice glass of pinot at the end of the day. The only thing that ruins it all is her workaholic, career-obsessed neighbor, who makes no secret of what she thinks of Celeste’s life choices every chance she gets.

Wendy Charles is a celebrated productivity consultant, columnist, and speaker. On a minute-by-minute schedule, she makes the working-mom hustle look easy. She even spends at least one waking hour a day with her kids. She’s not apologizing for a thing. Especially to Celeste, who plays her superior parenting against Wendy whenever she can.

Who do Celeste and Wendy think they are? They’re about to find out thanks to one freaky week. After a neighborhood potluck and too much sangria, they wake up—um, what?—in each other’s bodies. Everything Celeste and Wendy thought they knew about the “other kind of mom” is flipped upside down—along with their messy, complicated, maybe not so different lives.

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1 July 2021
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Kelly Harms has made readers laugh, cry, and swoon with her blockbuster bestseller The Overdue Life of Amy Byler. Now Kelly is back with a perfect summer read that’s just as charming, relatable, and funny—and it has a magical twist to boot.

In The Seven Day Switch, Celeste Mason and Wendy Charles are neighboring mothers who couldn’t be more different. The only thing they have in common is the fence that divides their backyards. So imagine their confusion—and panic!—when they wake up one morning to discover they’ve somehow switched bodies and lives. Not only that, but life carries on around them as normal. Their husbands and children have no idea that Celeste is really Wendy and vice versa. What the heck is going on? That’s what Celeste and Wendy have to figure out, all while juggling the many demands of motherhood and marriage—not to mention, finding a way to get their lives back.

The Seven Day Switch is an absolute riot to read. Confusion, chaos, and hilarity abound as Celeste’s and Wendy’s worlds are flipped upside down, but there’s plenty of soul-searching too. For these two mothers, a week walking in someone else’s shoes has them seeing themselves more clearly than ever. You might find yourself feeling the same way after reading this story. Now that’s magic.

- Chris Werner, Editor

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Kelly Harms is the Amazon Charts, Washington Post, and USA Today bestselling author of five books, including The Overdue Life of Amy Byler, a Goodreads top ten fiction book of the year and a WFWA STAR Award finalist. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages throughout the world. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her clever son, Griffin; charming Irishman Chris; and Scout, the best dog in dogtown. For more information visit www.kellyharms.com.

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"Both Tusing and DeLisle turn in truly excellent performances as Wendy and Celeste. Always-on-the-go Wendy has a warm southern accent that can exude charm and humor or deliver barbs with equal force. Celeste, a transplant from the Midwest, is generally warm and optimistic, but also firm. Both narrators fully embody every aspect, good and bad, of these women as Harms slowly reveals their layers, allowing listeners to connect with both even as the women clash with each other." --Booklist

"Making a compelling case for moderation in all things, Harms (The Bright Side of Going Dark, 2020) paints her heroines as flawed but loving mothers, each managing in the best way she knows how. The most clever and incisive take on the Mommy Wars since Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, Harms's latest captures the messy, complicated, and often all-consuming mindset of motherhood." --Booklist (starred review)

"Freaky Friday for the mom set, this novel by Harms (The Bright Side of Going Dark) is full of fun, relatable, and cringe-worthy moments, as each woman experiences life on the other side of the fence." --Library Journal

"The Seven Day Switch is a must-read for the summer." --Fort Hood Sentinel

"Ranging in tone from wistful to laugh-out-loud funny, The Seven Day Switch is a memorable experience, thoroughly enjoyable from cover to cover." --Midwest Book Review

"Harms delights in The Seven Day Switch. When polar-opposites Celeste and Wendy chug magical sangria and find themselves literally walking in the other's shoes, they'll soon discover that maybe they aren't so different after all. Heartwarming and hilarious, with an incredibly satisfying ending, we guarantee you will love this book!" --Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke, authors of How to Save a Life

"Kelly Harms has created a funny, zany story of two moms who drink some sangria with imported vodka and suddenly find themselves inhabiting each other's bodies. (Think Freaky Friday with two grown women who don't much like each other.) As she takes us on a ride exploring the ever-present 'mommy wars'--starring one way-too-busy productivity-expert mom and a stay-at-home mother who has become the neighborhood carpooler--Harms very quietly brings us to some profound and unexpected truths about love and parenting and what makes a satisfying life. Written with Harms's disarming humor and honesty, The Seven Day Switch is fun and funny--and leaves you with a powerful punch." --Maddie Dawson, bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08HN77HSL
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lake Union Publishing (1 July 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4173 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 314 pages

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USA Today, Amazon Charts, and Washington Post bestselling author KELLY HARMS is the author of five novels including The Overdue Life of Amy Byler, one of GoodReads’ top ten fiction books of the year and a WFWA Star Award finalist. Her works have been translated into a dozen languages throughout the world.

Before becoming a writer herself, she was a New York editor and literary agent and worked with a wide array of bestselling and award-winning authors. She now lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her clever son Griffin, charming Irishman Chris, and Scout, the best dog in dogtown.

Kelly loves meeting her readers virtually and in real life, and can be found at www.kellyharms.com for the former. Come say hi!

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Who are you really? Does anyone know?

Reviewed in Australia on 9 June 2021

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This is a fantastic - in my opinion, twist on the old Freaky Friday favourite. However, desipte being a story featuring mothers and daughters... it's no mother daughter twist. And because of that it's one of the best and definately most relatable story I've read in a long time. Even with the whole switching souls part, it reads so well you'd swear it this can and does happen.

This is a book I really encourage you all to read. It's for all of us. For any mum who works outside the home, for any that is lucky enough to work in. For any woman who has looed at another and thought herself surerior, for any who's looked and felt lacking. For anyone who's struggled to 'keep up with the Joneses'. For anyone who's simply looked around her house and wondered why there's a hole in that wall and dishes piling up.

For anyone who's drunk too much vodka and had an out of body experience and for anyone who really wishes that they could. How do others really see you? Who do you think you are? Are any of us who others or even ourselves think we are? This story is for all of us!

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Wife Swap and Freaky Friday combined

Reviewed in Australia on 11 July 2021

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A fun book! I love Wife Swap, Freaky Friday and anything like that, and this book was plenty of fun but with some deeper undertones. You can definitely picture the storyline as you go along. I recommend this fun read! Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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Abi

Improbable storyline, but I still enjoyed the read

Reviewed in Australia on 27 June 2021

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A light read. Age old issue of working mothers vs stay at home mothers. Their perceptions vs ours. In the end it boils down to the fact that we all do what we can, when we can, how we can. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just be ourselves and support our 'sisters' as they try to be themselves too? Now that would be a fairy story come true.

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Ally

How many bits if you are scattered throughput this story?

Reviewed in Australia on 14 January 2022

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I dare you to read this without finding yourself in it somewhere.an extremely well written story where research realities of the modern and fiction, all blend to both entertain and promote introspection.

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Sasha

fun freaky Friday that lasts a week

Reviewed in Australia on 30 October 2021

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Cute fun story line about switching bodies. Easy, light read. Friendship theme with a few twists Along the way. Good read!

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Great story

Reviewed in Australia on 24 September 2021

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Wow what a book. As an avid reader I do like to read these kind of stories and also to be transported into the story. great great book.

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Chris

Interesting read

Reviewed in Australia on 2 July 2021

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I enjoyed this novel. A little predictable in places but good character development.

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Lilirose

The book was an easy read and a good story.

Reviewed in Australia on 7 July 2021

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Good story!

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Katherine M.

NOT a fun read! Unless you want more politics and police slurs with your beach read.

Reviewed in the United States on 6 June 2021

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This is not my usual kind of book and I found it to be a fun and interesting read until out of nowhere it calls cops racist and violent who would hurt someone with expired license tags just because of the color of their skin. I am tired of politics in everything and it serves no purpose here except to make clear the politics of the author. It was a completely out of place statement in the scene and by the character who used it. I wish I had known this was not just a silly, light read but one full of unnecessary and outright defamatory statements. I have no desire to read anymore of this book or the author.

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John Galt

Woke Freaky Friday

Reviewed in the United States on 3 June 2021

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This is a new take on the body swap trope, and a pretty good one. Wokeness cost it two stars, though. It hit most of the required points. Gun control? In passing, but check. Climate change? Again, check. Gender pronouns? Check. "Diversity"? Check, and more than just a single reference. And then there was the feminism. Being a housewife and stay-at-home mother is very grudgingly acknowledged as a valid life choice. As the story unfolds, though, Celeste (the housewife) is far more criticized for her choices than Wendy (the working mom). Even so, I was able to enjoy the ride. Wokeness aside, it's a silly but enjoyable story.

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Babs

An Easy Read, But Disappointed

Reviewed in the United States on 7 June 2021

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I was reading this on a rainy Sunday and having a grand old time with Celeste and Wendy, until the author felt the need to have a character STATE, not imply, that all cops are bad.

This is the paragraph:

“Our city cops are constantly in the news for being certified in this or that implicit-bias training, but they still have guns and adrenaline and lifetimes of faulty programming like in any other city.”

This is a blanket statement regarding all police officers and it totally turned me off from reading anything else by this author. Try taking a ride-along with a city police officer, Kelly Harms. Your eyes may be opened.

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Mrs J E-P

A witty Mum drama

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2021

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Freaky Friday revisited! We meet Wendy, a working mum who gets up at dawn to fit a bit more in her day, and Celeste, a stay-at-home mum with a demanding schedule and no friends. They draw the reader into their seven days of walking in each other’s shoes with humorous, sad, endearing detail and a some brutal stereotypical judgements.The characters grow on you as they face home truths and cliches. Overall a feel good novel that kept me reading until the satisfying conclusion. Now off to look up the recipe for rose’ sangria!

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Elaine Fairfield

Brilliantly funny body-swapping chaos!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 June 2021

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This is such a lovely book. A lot of it is predictable but it doesn’t detract from the story at all, since it’s written with humour, entertaining situations and interesting characters.

I found myself laughing at the parenting styles of each mum (a MUST read if you’re a parent!); I even picked up a few tips along the way.

I love that Celeste and Wendy are enemies - they disagree on practically everything; from their lifestyles to the way they raise their children. They’re forced to take a hard look at themselves as well as each other through this crazy body-swapping chaos.

I enjoyed the book, but some parts of it seemed to go on and on without too much happening. I thought the ending would be a standard cut and dry “we’re back in our own bodies” kind of ending, but I was pleasant surprised. It turned out to be more elaborate and interesting. As with all endings, there are things that need to be tied up, and Harms did this nicely; it was well-paced, and the reader gets closure.

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