#186 in Romance
The Switch
- 336
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Switch” makes warm, hopeful comedy out of a simple swap: a grandmother close to eighty and her worn-out granddaughter trade lives for two months. Beth O’Leary sends Eileen to London to look for love and Leena to a small Yorkshire village full of gossiping neighbours, and makes room for loss and grief as well. Some readers find that the fun of the opening gives way, from the middle, to a lower and angrier mood.
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About the book
Eileen is sick of being 79. Leena's tired of life in her twenties. Maybe it's time they swapped places ... When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn eighty. She'd like a second chance at love, but her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen. Once Leena learns of Eileen's romantic predicament, she proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can live in London and look for love. Meanwhile Leena will look after everything in rural Yorkshire. But with gossiping neighbours and difficult family dynamics to navigate up north, and trendy London flatmates and online dating to contend with in the city, stepping into one another's shoes proves more difficult than either of them expected. Leena learns that a long-distance relationship isn't as romantic as she hoped it would be, and then there is the annoyingly perfect - and distractingly handsome - school teacher, who keeps showing up to outdo her efforts to impress the local villagers. Back in London, Eileen is a huge hit with her new neighbours, but is her perfect match nearer home than she first thought?
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 161 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 52% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Romance average of 7.6. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 161 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Switch?
It has 336 pages — shorter than 83% of the ranked books in Romance.
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