I am Raintea: Five Days Left

Twenty minutes into “Five Days Left”, I dissolved into tears.

There's no mystery or thrill. This book tells the story of two persons' journey to their intended final destination.

Five Days Left is a story about Mara and Scott, two cyber friends who knew each other only by their nicknames. Their common thread was a parenting forum.

Mara had Huntington disease. Not long after she was diagnosed, and knew how the disease would bring her down, she started planning her departure. A departure by choice and on her own terms. She did not want to burden her husband and neither did she want to embarrass her young adopted daughter when the disease was in the advance stage. She was now five days away from her birthday.

Scott had all the right “ingredients” of the perfect father, except he was yet a father. He was a teacher by profession, and a saviour by heart. He volunteered to foster the younger brother of a student once his, when their mother was locked away for drugs. His wife was pregnant with their first child and they were three months away from welcoming their firstborn. The wife sympathised with Scott when Little Man, as Scott had called him, was scheduled to return to his mother after her release. But she was also insistent on forming a family of their own blood lineage.

Five Days Left is a great book for people, especially females, who want to curl up in the bed over a long weekend with a reason to be emotional, however though you might be happy with your life!

Hover over the bold, italicised title for a sample read of Five Days Left.

Julie Lawson Timmer , a lawyer by profession, is a first-time author. Perhaps it is no coincidence that Mara is a lawyer by profession. Timmer reminded me of Jodi Picoult, but just a tad less heavy.

Her second book, Untethered, is coming out in June 2016.