What happens to Celeste and Wendy that turns their lives upside down? It doesn’t take much for her world to get shaken up. She’s been managing as a perfectionist for years in her work life, dancing as fast as she can, and her second shift exhausts her. Wendy is that frantic side of us who is going to do it all and be the best no matter what, even if she never sleeps again.

What is Wendy Charles’ take on being a working mom? So, she brings a lot of confidence to the party that I personally have never felt, but with her daughter poised on the brink of teendom, we can be sure some of that confidence is about to be challenged. I had to explore this and the body swap genre was the exact right way for me to find my way into the story.Ĭeleste takes it as something natural she was born to do, and as something no one else could possibly do as well as she does. I noticed that though we all had a lot in common, the grass always seemed a bit greener in someone else’s backyard. Kelly: My contemporaneous parenting friends and I all have different varieties of lifestyles, with some of us working full time out of the home, many working from home, and a few working as stay-at-home mothers. 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.Jen: What inspired you to write THE SEVEN DAY SWITCH? After a neighborhood potluck and too much sangria, they wake up-um, what?-in each others bodies. Who do Celeste and Wendy think they are? Theyre about to find out thanks to one freaky week. Especially to Celeste, who plays her superior parenting against Wendy whenever she can. She even spends at least one waking hour a day with her kids. On a minute-by-minute schedule, she makes the working-mom hustle look easy. Wendy Charles is a celebrated productivity consultant, columnist, and speaker. The only thing that ruins it all is her workaholic, career-obsessed neighbor, who makes no secret of what she thinks of Celestes life choices every chance she gets. 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. 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.Ĭeleste Mason is the Pinterest stay-at-home supermom of other mothers nightmares. Two moms as opposite as a Happy Meal and a quinoa bowl.

The Seven Day Switch by Kelly Harms