A holiday. A family. Seven days away from ordinary life.
I thought I was going on holiday.
Apparently, instead I was going to notice myself.
Seven Days
It was supposed to be a holiday.
Seven days away.
A change of scenery. A break from the usual routines. A chance to make memories with the family.
But getting away doesn’t necessarily mean getting away from yourself.
Seven Days follows one mother through a family holiday as she begins to notice the roles she plays, the things she carries, and the parts of herself that can be easy to lose in the middle of everyday life.
There are children, meals, sunscreen, interrupted sleep and all the ordinary chaos that comes with taking a family away.
But there are also quieter moments.
A thought that won’t go away.
A realisation in the middle of the night.
A glimpse of the woman underneath the roles.
Written in diary-style entries across seven days, Seven Days is a warm, funny and honest story about motherhood, identity and what can happen when you finally have enough distance from your ordinary life to see it differently.
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The story behind the book
I didn’t set out to write a book.
I took a journal on holiday and I wrote in it because I wanted to remember the little things — what we did, what the kids said, what annoyed me, what made me laugh, what I noticed.
The holiday was ordinary.
Messy.
Sometimes funny.
Sometimes exhausting.
And somewhere between the sunscreen, the meals, the children and lying awake at night staring at a neon sign from an Asian restaurant across the road, I started noticing something else.
Me.
The roles I automatically slipped into.
The things I carried without thinking.
The expectations I’d brought with me.
And the little moments that made me wonder who I was when I wasn’t simply being everything everyone else needed.
When I came home, I read through what I’d written.
And there it was.
A story.
So Seven Days grew from those real-life journal entries.
It isn’t a story about a perfect family holiday.
It’s about what a mother might realise about herself when she steps outside her usual life for seven days.