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From the critically lauded, internationally best-selling writer of The Instant comes a profoundly moving novel that explores how a single brief encounter can transform one's life. Laura spends her days looking at other people's potential calamities. She works in the radiography unit of a tiny medical center on the Maine coast, bearing constant see to the doubts of patient after frightened patient. In employment where finding nothing is always the perfect outcome, she actually is well versed in the random injustices of life, a truism that has currently been playing out in her matrimony as well. Since being downsized, her hubby, Dan, is becoming withdrawn, his mental distance slowly but surely corroding their relationship. With a kid in college and a little girl soon due to set off, Laura has started to fear that the marital noises of silence will only deepen after the nest is actually empty. When an opportunity arises to attend a weekend medical meeting in Boston, Laura jumps as of this rest from home. While looking at in, she meets a man as grey and uninspired as her drab accommodation. Richard is an outwardly dreary, 50-something insurance salesman. But throughout a chance second encounter, Laura discovers him to be interestingly complex and thoughtful, someone who, like herself, is grappling with the same big questions about decisions made and the individuals convenience of self-entrapment. As their conversation deepens and commences to veer into shared confessions, the overpowering sense of personal and romantic connection occurs. A transformative romance commences. But can this potential, much-longed-for joy be married with their own difficult personal circumstances? Can they upend their lives and embrace that most loaded of words: change? A love tale as clear-sighted and ruminative as it has effects on, Five Times will perhaps you have reflecting about the options we all make that shape our destinies. Crafted with Kennedy's hallmark evocative prose and pitch-perfect in its depiction of the complex realities of modern life, this is a novel that talks directly to the countless contradictions of the individuals heart.
