Five Days by Douglas KennedyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Be careful what you wish for. FIVE DAYS ia a beautifully crafted contemporary tale of love forsaken and redeemed.
Laura's life is defined by sacrifice. Unhappily married to Dan, who was recently laid off from LL Bean, she holds her family together emotionally as well as,financially. A practicing X-Ray technologist, she is competent beyond her pay grade. With aspirations to be a doctor, she sacrificed both these hopes and her youth to do the right thing. Laura's life is about making do, and putting everyone else's needs before her own.
Attending a work conference in Boston one weekend she meets unhappily married Richard Copeland. Despite a shaky start, they click and Laura chooses to follow her feelings, allowing Richard into her life. begins the long-overdue process of detangling herself from her stifling domestic routine. Over the course of five days, Laura and Richard tumble into love, making plans to disentangle themselves from their equally unfulfilling lives and marriages and to start again, with each other. However, one of them isn't as brave as they want to be.
The story explores the disintegration of a long marriage and the sweep of new romance. It also captures beautifull the rebuilding of Laura's sense of self. For a male writer, Kennedy speaks eloquently in Laura's skin.
This was a lovely book. I was lucky to receive an advance reading copy through NetGalley and Atria Books. I can recommend this one for a solid holiday or bedtime reader.
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