A deep, dynamic story capable of bringing tears to your eyes and making you think about the choices each person makes in life. Laura is an X-ray technician at a small hospital on the coast of the state of Maine. At work she achieved brilliant results, but in her family… her twenty-year marriage is going under. One day she travels to a conference in Boston and meets Richard Coleman, an insurance agent. Unexpectedly for herself, Laura realizes she really likes this lively and surprisingly well-read man. Two lonely hearts meet in a foreign city… Two desperate people get together, but fear the consequences… “Five Days” is a magnificent novel about the many contradictions of the human heart and about the fact that every action we take ultimately matters. This is a book for those who still believe that starting life over is the only right decision. In her new brilliant novel, Kennedy touches on the theme of true love and the fate that a person chooses for themselves.
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An amazing novel about the variety of contradictions of the human heart. A moving story of the life of an ordinary woman: her passions, sufferings, renunciation, forgiveness, and LOVE. Love that happens only once in a lifetime…
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