Blood in the Trenches: A Memoir of the Battle of the Somme
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Written by Captain A. Radclyffe Dugmore of the King's Own Light Infantry, this personal memoir...
Earl and His Butler in Constantinople: The Secret Diary of an English Servant Among the Ottomans
Nigel R. Webb and Caroline Webb
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George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, was an unconventional ambassador. A Scottish aristocrat who had...
In a Guardsman's Boots: A Boy Soldier's Adventures from the Streets of 1920s Dublin to Buckingham Palace, WWII and the Egyptian Revolution
Caroline Rochford and Paddy Rochford
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When he was just eight years old, Paddy Rochford enrolled at Dublin's Royal Hibernian Military...
Signalling and Signal Boxes Along the GCR Route
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Over the course of several volumes, Allen Jackson uses an array of photographs to lavishly...
Signalling and Signal Boxes Along the GER Route
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Over the course of several volumes, Allen Jackson uses an array of photographs to lavishly...
Signalling and Signal Boxes Along the GNR Route
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Over the course of several volumes, Allen Jackson uses an array of photographs to lavishly...
All the Beloved Ghosts
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An acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories blending fiction, biography, and...
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Catholicism, Identity and Politics in the Age of - The Life and Career of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 1745-1810
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This book explores the changing aspirations, attitudes and identities of English Catholics in the...
Laura Doe (1350 KP) rated The Switch in Books
Jul 31, 2021
The book is split between chapters for Leena and Eileen, a granddaughter and grandmother who are grieving the loss of Leena’s sister. Leena threw herself into work in London while Eileen threw herself into looking after her daughter and Leena’s mother, Marian. After Leena is told by her boss that she must take a two month sabbatical, her and Eileen decide to swap lives for the two months. Leena moving to a tiny, sleepy village in Yorkshire, full of nosey old people and Neighbourhood Watch meetings, while Eileen moves to a tiny little flat in West London and tries online dating whilst making friends with everyone she comes across (whether they want to or not).
Beth O’Leary’s humour is brilliant, and so many situations had me giggling and rereading them multiple times and starting to giggle all over again (my favourite being when asked how a dog ended up in someone’s garden). It is so ridiculous, but not far fetched, and so you can actually imagine the events that make you laugh actually unfolding.
This book has just continued my love for Beth O’Leary and I will definitely be continuing to read her work and looking forward to new releases of hers in the future.

