Five Days Book

Laura is in the throes of a midlife crisis. Her twenty year marriage has flatlined and her husband Dan has become a stranger to her since losing his job eighteen months ago. So when she is invited to a weekend conference in Boston she jumps at the opportunity. While checking in she gets talking with a man she immediately characterises as grey and uninspired. His name is Richard Coleman. He's a fifty something insurance salesman also from Maine also in Boston for the weekend. But when a chance meeting later that evening brings them together again Laura begins to discover another man beneath the salesman facade: smart animated and surprisingly literate. Two lonely people meet by chance in a city not their own. Two people desperate for a connection yet terrified of the implications. In his remarkable new novel Douglas Kennedy takes the premise of a brief encounter and turns it into a hugely compelling exploration of how and why we fall in love and the way in which the entire trajectory of a life can change thanks to the music of chance.A profoudly moving love story that inspires tears and serious rumination "Five Days" speaks directly to the manifold contradictions of the human heart.

Five Days : Paperback : Cornerstone : 9780091795825 : : 23 Apr 2013 : From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment comes a poignant and profound American love story.But a chance meeting in a hotel lobby - and the five days that follow - remind Laura of the young woman she used to be - and the woman she could have become.