The Switch - Beth O'Leary

Title: The Switch

Author: Beth O'Leary

Pages: 328

First Published: 2020

What is it about: After a horrible year of working and working, Leena has a breakdown just in the middle of a very important presentation. Her boss gives her 2 months of sabbatical to get better and tells her to go away, take it as an opportunity to put her life back together after her sister's premature death. Leena decides then to leave London behind and go up to Yorkshire to visit her grandma. 

Eileen Cotton, almost 80-years-old, who has been left by her husband, is starting a new project. She wants to find someone to date, but there are no eligible men up in her little village in Yorkshire. 

Once Leena arrives, it is clear to the pair of them that they both need a change in their lives. Eileen has been busy taking care of Leena's mom and everyone else in the village, but herself. Leena is stressed from everything. So they decide to switch lives. Eileen is going to spend the next two months in London, chasing her dream from when she was a young girl, before life got in the way. Leena is going to take a much needed break from everything and everyone up in Yorkshire.

My thoughts: I loved this book from the start! It was predictable, but it was just such an amazing, light read; it was comforting. Eileen was such a character! I laughed basically during all of her chapters. She is such a strong female character and everyone should learn from her.
Leena was more the typical protagonist of every romance novel, she struggles with her life, goes away for a few months and magically understands what she is really supposed to do. 

There are so many books around like that and don't get me wrong, I do love reading them every now and then, it brings some sort of comfort to my life, especially these days; but Eileen's story was much more interesting for me to read.

What I loved about both characters, though, is how they were there for other people. No matter who they were, they were there to help them. Female power to the rescue!

I read 'The Flatshare' as well by Beth O'Leary, but 'The Switch' was much better in my opinion.