Five Days Left by Julie Lawson Timmer

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Julie Lawson Timmer
• Title: Five Days Left
• Publisher: ‎ Thorndike Press; Large Type / Large Print Edition (October 31, 2014)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Library Binding (Large Print) – 561 pages
• ISBN-10: 1410473228
• ISBN-13: 978-1410473226
• Item Weight: 1.35 pounds
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher
• Book Condition: Very Good (Former library book; may include the markings and stickers associated from the library. May show signs of minor discoloration on page edges). 
• Cover Condition: Very Good
• Edition: Large Print Edition‏

Synopsis:

“This impressive debut novel heralds the arrival of an extremely talented writer.”—Jodi Picoult

Destined to be a book club favorite, a heart-wrenching debut about two people who must decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice for love.

Mara Nichols is a successful lawyer, devoted wife, and adoptive mother who has received a life-shattering diagnosis. Scott Coffman, a middle school teacher, has been fostering an eight-year-old boy while the boy’s mother serves a jail sentence. Scott and Mara both have five days left until they must say good-bye to the ones they love the most.

 

Through their stories, Julie Lawson Timmer explores the individual limits of human endurance and the power of relationships, and shows that sometimes loving someone means holding on, and sometimes it means letting go.  

About the Author:

Julie Lawson Timmer grew up in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, and graduated from McMaster University before earning a law degree from Southern Methodist University in Texas.

By turns, she is an author, lawyer, mom/stepmom and fledgling yogi. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband, their children, and two dogs.

FIVE DAYS LEFT (Putnam 2014) is her first novel. Her second is UNTETHERED (Putnam 2016), and MRS. SAINT AND THE DEFECTIVES (Lake Union, 2017) is her third. 

www.julielawsontimmer.com