A really nice feel-good read! House swap was an easy read, well written and had all the feels. Likeable characters and a good plot. Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC, 4 stars

A thoroughly enjoyable and heartwarming read. This is an engaging, light hearted and believable story, with laugh out loud moments, and characters that you really grow to care about. The mini tennis outfit had me giggling away! I really recommend this book for a bit of light relief.

House Swap is a delightful froth of a book about family, romance and forgiveness. Identical twins Rachel and Katy have been estranged for several years, pushed apart by their grandmother’s death and their parents’ divorce. Katy moved to London to be an event planner at a sophisticated, high end company. In reality, she lives in a small cottage behind her employer’s house and is a nearly full time nanny to company owner Fiona’s children, while angling for a full time events position. Of course, she doesn’t share that with Rachel. However, Rachel has the greater secret. Her husband left her and an office romance failed but, because of that romance, she’s eight months pregnant. Katy thinks Rachel is happy living in the old family home in Wales, baking tasty desserts, and working at a small local firm. How will the truth come out?

Come out is does in this entertaining page turner! And before the satisfying conclusion where all is neatly wrapped up, there is pottery, an old boyfriend, baby tennis, an angry goose, vegan cookbooks, a disastrous charity auction and more. This is an easy fun read that will leave you with a smile. 5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Headline Review and Olivia Beirne for this ARC.

I enjoyed reading about Katy and Rachel and how they find their way back to one another. It’s funny and warm hearted tale.

I do need to find out more about Fiona though…

Thank you to Headline via NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review.

Following the lives of estranged twin sisters Katy and Rachel, both women are fed up and miserable in their life choices and failings. But they can't let the other know this, and both put on a front about how happy, successful and fulfilled they are whenever they happen to speak. In this fakery, the sisters drift further apart until they feel they barely know one another at all, exchanging only small talk and surface pleasantries - but the twins know that something is amiss, and each can feel unease with the other. Whether or not they are ready to face it, is another thing altogether.

House Swap is a lovely, easy read about how two people can drift so far apart, but still be connected in ways they wouldn't have ever guessed. Though the sisters are not in the same room together until the very end of the book, you really get a sense of their relationship as a duo, as well as their own personalities and issues they haven't yet faced. It very much gives the vibe of Beth O'Leary's The Switch, in that kind, gentle humour and loveable characters. A great read!

A well written enjoyable book. Made me want to keep reading and I didn’t want it to finish. Well done!

WOW! Hilarious but also very heartwarming. No life is perfect despite what we think. This was just one fun read! Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher!

This book is definitely not for me, it might appeal to a much younger, possibly YA audience, who might have more patience with it than I have. Both of the central characters, twins Rachel and Katy, in their late 20s ( I think) behave in such an immature and irritating way. Nothing about either of them rings true, they are both so inept and boring, who allow life to happen to them without complaint.
They allow themselves to be put upon, and taken advantage of, without showing a shred of gumption or self belief. The whole scenario around the ‘big event night’ at work, that Katy was allegedly in charge of, was just silly beyond belief. This was the point at which I stopped reading this book.
I know so many young people, particularly young women, much younger in years than these two, who have intelligence, ability, energy and self belief, and get the job done. This book does them a disservice.
Despite all the hype, this book is not remotely funny, just incredibly irritating. A DNF for me.
My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my advance copy of this book.

This was my first book by Olivia Beirne and it was enjoyable. This is a story about family, lost lives and lies. Twin sisters Katy and Rachel used to really close but have now grown apart. A lovely quick read, would recommend.

I love lighthearted books and this one def fits the bill. I also love books that have a “swap” element to them as well. It gives a great perspective that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side and not all is as it appears. Highly recommend.

Firstly a big thank you to the publishers for my copy to review on netgalley. I’ve enjoyed previous books from this author.

This is a fun ,witty and modern story on sibling rivalry. All is not as it seems for either of the twins but both too stubborn to speak to one another.

I raced through this . Each sister had great charactar and I could relate to both.

A story of love,lies ,friendships and family . Its packed with warmth and humour .

Published 2nd September

Apologies, I reviewed this book in error… I meant to review a book with the same name.

I will write this review once I have completed this book.

So sorry.

Time to clear your schedule for the afternoon, coffee pot on and phone turned off - you won’t want to put this one down. This was a compelling and thoroughly enjoyable read from start to finish with a great storyline.

A warm and lovely book to sink into with a cuppa and a biscuit! I love that this book is about identical twins, Rachel and Kate, with each chapter written from each sister alternatively. From being a close family, the sisters have grown apart over the last few years after the death of their beloved grandma and Katy moving away to London. With each sister pretending that they are living the dream life, the rift and misunderstandings grow……. Can they ever get back to being close? A story of family, sisters, lost lives and the tangled web of lies we weave. Fabulous.

A great easy read about twins, Rachel and Katy who started living very seperate lives following a bereavement.

The story has great supporting characters who eventually come to get to know both of the twins.

I was provided with a free ebook copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review. Thank you to the authors, the publishers and NetGalley for this.

The book follows two twin sisters, Katy who lives in London and Rachel who lives in their childhome in Wales. They haven't seen each other in a few years following their parents divorce and their grandmother's death.

Rachel thinks that Katy is living the high life in London working in events and living in a flat with a view of the Shard. In reality, Katy works as a PA to the manger of an events company and that mostly involves looking after her children for her. Oh and her flat? It's actually a shed at the bottom of the bosses garden.

Katy thinks that Rachel lives a perfect life, that she is happily married to her childhood sweetheart and living a countryside cottage dream. In reality, Rachel's husband left and she had an affair with someone at work, got pregnant and then he also left. So now she is 8 months pregnant, which she has been keeping a secret.

Following a turn of events, Katy and Rachel both end up staying for a week in each other's flats. They begin to realise that the other has been keeping secrets as well. This book follows them as they try to reconnect.

I really enjoyed this one. I thought it was good fun, fast paced and addictive enough to keep me wanting more at the end of every chapter. I think to enjoy this to its maximum, you would need to set aside any expectation of this being a realistic story, it's not. The characters all make a lot of dumb decisions, but that's what keeps the plot going and they are all loveable characters in the end.

Would recommend to those looking for an easy, fun read.

Well, she's done it again! Olivia's books never fail to make me laugh out loud and this one is no exception. Filled with warm and witty characters and a swoon-worthy boy next door hero, what is there not to like? I absolutely loved it!

I thought that this was going to be a slow burne, but I was so wrong. Written from two perspectives, twin sisters Katy and Rachel, which really meant that I just wanted to keep reading the next chapter.
I devoured it on a wet summer’s afternoon, when I should have been working - couldn't put it down.
A great staycation read.

What a fabulous book..... I loved it.
It tells the story of identical twins Katy and Rachel who both lead very different lives.
They have grown apart but can their differences be resolved..........is blood thicker than water.

A heartwarming book about family life.... Warts and all.
A very funny uplifting book.
Highly recommended

I really enjoyed this book! It was a great read, i didnt want to put it down! I would recommend this to my friends and family