The Switch

Leena is in mourning for her sister who died of cancer a year ago. Leena works hard, too hard, at her job, and it all falls apart. She is asked to take a two-month sabbatical.

Leena's grandmother, Eileen, is single at 79, and she has always dreamed of living in London instead of her small village.

Almost on impulse Leena and her grandmother decide to change places for the two months, switching homes, friends, cell phones, everything. What will this experiment be like?

(a small spoiler alert)

I was completely taken with Eileen and Leena as characters, each living strong in completely different lives, but each foundering a bit, and the way each took their strengths as people into the new situations and both improved the world and improved themselves. Eileen and Leena are very different and yet also totally the same, and their environments, their friends, their own lives were all strengthened by the switch.